That day, Antti Pendikainen landed safe and sound. He became a legend. The video of his jump got millions of views. He proved that for him, nothing was impossible.
“Next time I’ll do something even crazier,” he promised. But fate had other plans.
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A few years later, in 2019, Antti died. It didn’t happen in the sky he loved so much, but on the ground. He crashed during a motorcycle race. He was only 29 years old.
He left young, but he lived his life brighter than most people do in 90 years. His insane jump without a parachute remains in history as proof of the limitlessness of human courage (or madness).
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