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How Victoria Cilliers survived parachute fall as chilling sabotage was discovered on camera

A new ITV documentary fronted by Fiona Bruce has explained how Victoria Cilliers survived the 4,000 foot fall after her husband sabotaged her paracute.

Emile Cilliers deliberately twisted both her main and reserve parachute in a sickening murder plot as he was having an affair and wanted her life insurance payout.

Fiona revealed the only reason Victoria did not die in the horrific fall was because she landed in freshly ploughed land.

The chilling moment experts realised the parachute has been sabotaged was even caught on camera and shown during The Parachute Murder Plot on Monday.

Fiona said: "[Victoria] survived by the sheer luck of landing in freshly ploughed land.

"Just hours after the fall, the first suspicions were raised, and the parachute club inspected Victoria's kit.

"In this exclusive footage, their initial examination suggested this was no an accident."

Emile Cilliers denies attempting to murder his wife Victoria (pixel GRG)

A clip of the group looking at the parachute played, as one man said: "I've never seen anything like that before."

He added: "I think that... I don't know."

Incredibly, Victoria survived the fall with a broken pelvis, broken ribs, fractures in her spine and bleeding in her lungs.

(ITV)

She recently appeared on This Morning, where she recalled: "I just remember a bang and everything going black.

"I was spinning so fast I'm not sure if I lost consciousness because of the G-force, or if that was me hitting the ground."

Evil Emile had tried to kill Victoria before by causing a gas leak, even putting their two children at risk.

*The Parachute Murder Plo tis available on ITV Player

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