Thirty-six year old Belarusian pilot, Ivan Krasouski, got impaled through the shoulder when his Paratrike almost made a paraplegic out of him June 7, 2018. A strap snapped and he spun out of control. 

Ivan crashed into a woodland area. “I’m thinking, ‘I fell so softly, all is okay,'” he said in hospital. “‘I’ll stand up and go…’ then… something holds me back. I looked and it was a giant log there. I tore my shirt and there was a branch in my arm, thick as a watermelon.”

A sharp branch impaled his shoulder as he made his landing. He would have bled out if they pulled the branch out of his shoulder, so they cut him free from the wreckage and carted him off to hospital with the branch still in place.

“Many people came. I told them – ‘Take out this splinter’,” he said. “And they say – ‘No, are you crazy? If we take it away, you’ll bleed to death.

“Like in ancient times people were put on a stake… I was impaled.”

He even felt fit enough to pose for pictures in the hospital and update his social media accounts. “And I was like: ‘I am Groot!’

Ivan survived and he will be back! Check out the video.