Man Dangles Off Downtown Cleveland Building In Skydiving Jump Gone Wrong

A man broke his leg after slamming into a building while parachuting in downtown Cleveland early Sunday morning.

Eyewitness video shows a man with an open parachute crashing into the Cleveland 19 News building at the corner of E. 12 Street and Chester Avenue around 2 a.m. With his parachute tangled on the corner of the building, the man was dangling 30 to 40 feet before he was rescued.

"You could tell the man was in pain. He was just sitting there holding on, trying to wait it out because help was on the way," Patrick O'Shea, who witnessed the crash, told Cleveland 19.

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In audio obtained by ABC World News Now, a 911 dispatcher sounds in disbelief as she relays what happened. Firefighters freed the man and took him to nearby hospital.

The man told Cleveland police that he and three others jumped from a plane. The three others managed to safely land safely across the street at Perk Plaza. The man, who was the last one to jump, likely crashed into the building because his parachute caught a gust of wind, said Cleveland Fire Lt. Mike Norman.

The identities of the injured man and the other skydivers have not been released.

Witnesses believe that the man jumped from a nearby building, but detectives will investigate exactly where the group jumped from, reports Cleveland 19.

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