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I bet he's a skeleton hanging from a tree somewhere. Jumping out of a plane that is hauling butt, at night in pitch darkness, over a forest and you don't even know where you are is not a good idea.
I doubt he survived. It's all Bush's fault.

There is a cool show they air sometimes on the discovery channel where they had a stuntman re-enact the jump... if the 727 is going the proper speed, and drops its stairway...they found that the jump could be done easily even with the old time parachutes...however the jumper needed to be experienced and had to pull the rip cord at a specific count because it was very dark and overcast that night...

they also tested the possibility of falling into water....this is where it would be tough because the weight of the parachute and the money would drown him in cold water in 5 minutes or so.