http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/24/us/skydiver-saved-in-midair.html
So you jump out of a plane at 13,500 feet.
You notice one jumper whack another and appear unconscious.
You are falling at about 250 feet per second (terminal velocity), that is less than a minute till you hit the ground. So you go into a "superman" like dive to catch up.
You pull the rip chord for the diver, then your own at 3500 feet.
Below is a graph showing how close they were to the ground, compared to where they jumped from.
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