"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTsbFS4xmI&amp;t=2m33s"">2:33</a> "you have a buffer at the bottom that should reduce a freefall drop from 'fatal' to just 'severe injuries'."<br>Or", in the case of Betty Lou Oliver, who <b>already had</b> severe injuries before being placed in an elevator that would then freefall for 75 stories, "miraculous survival." (The buffer in this case was improved by the thousand feet of steel cable that had already broken off of the elevator and bunched at the bottom of the shaft, thus, apparently, cushioning the fall.)