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Originally Posted by glatt
His body was probably frozen solid, or close to it. It's kind of morbid to think about, but I wonder how frozen flesh behaves in a high speed impact. The height probably doesn't matter one you get over a few hundred feet. A tumbling solid object will reach a terminal velocity of probably less than 200MPH. Did he splatter or mostly stay in one piece?
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120 MPH if he wasn't in a stable vertical configuration. It is entirely possible that he was frozen right through, or close to right through, given the length of the flight (given that he was probably dead within the first 30 minutes) and the temperature.