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Ok, I used to jump, as we said, out of perfectly good non-burning airplanes, and it's been a few years but...
1> His release is in a very stupid place - did you see him reach back and grope for it? If his wing fabric had ripped it would have been easy to not get at it. Ditto a damaged arm.
2> The cameraman was darn lucky.
3> This is his second near-fatal accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Corliss
4> His chute did not really fully deploy - if he hadn't hit a nice soft tree he'd be a schmeer.
4> I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that he does not have nice insurance benefits that would pay for all these crashes.
5> Stuff like this is so not bright. -XC