Man survives 39-storey fall after landing on parked car

A young man plunged 39 storeys on Tuesday from a New York high-rise, crashed through the windshield of a sports car - and lived to tell about it. "My leg! My leg!" Thomas Magill, 22, screamed after an apparent suicide attempt ended with his landing in the red 2008 Dodge Charger, witnesses said. Magill was in critical condition on Tuesday night, undergoing surgery for two broken legs - but those who saw him fall were stunned he made it to the hospital.

"He came down feetfirst at like 100 mph," said witness Andrew Petrocelli, 47, a maintenance worker across the street from where Magill jumped. That's a miracle if I've ever seen one. He should be a goner. It was like that movie 'Unbreakable.' That was this guy: unbreakable." Guy McCormack, 40, of Old Bridge, N.J., owner of the crushed Charger, was doing construction work across the street when his car broke Magill's fall.



He believes Magill survived on the wings of divine intervention. Holding up a set of crystal rosary beads he retrieved from inside the car, McCormack exclaimed, "Here's what saved him!" Magill's father, Thomas Sr., sent friends a text message, asking them to "pray for my son." "He's stable now. We can only hope he'll be okay," the father said after doctors briefed him on his son's surgery at St. Luke's Hospital.

Police sources said investigators believe he jumped from a 39th-floor window or balcony at 10:45 a.m. He landed in the car's backseat and trunk area, twisted like a pretzel. "He had his hands up in the air, like flailing," Petrocelli said. "Just when he's about to land, there was a boom and glass flying all over. The car saved his life," Petrocelli surmised. "He landed in there like a stunt man. It was amazing."