Was a pretty good old track - I raced there in early 70s. Thanks for posting clip = Good memories

EXCELLENT base.

You know it's a pretty good wreck when his helmet goes flying after his first bounce.

We love Vinko Bogotaj because we can all identify with him; he is the sympathetic Everyman of the "Wide World" opening pantheon. The victors are few and far between, but every last one of us has had an Agony Of Defeat moment, the sudden sinkng feeling that something has gone horribly wrong, the pain, the humiliation... I daresay his epic wipeout is the essence of the human experience: you put on your brave face, you try, and very often you fail...but it's for you to fill in the blank, that you then get up and try again. And maybe, if you're lucky, the world will be there to cheer you on.

9.9, 10, 10, 9, 10....😂

I will try and find out. Do you have a web page with your email on it?

Do you know when this video was taken? The champ 81428 in the video has been in my family 52 years and the 2 Z-max’s that took off with it were built at our airport and haven’t flown in about 20 years or so

Fail meme before fail memes were a thing.

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rember seeing this as a kid over and over

Those skis were too narrow. Nobody wipes out on the ramp anymore…sometimes on the landing but it’s rare

Should have worn a helmet

Four hundred and 10 ft..He survived it and went on after he healed❤

Love Foghat

I woke up out of a dead sleep because I remembered my dad watching this video with me laughing our asses off

Motor crossers figured out how to land it and called it scrubbing 😂

Does anyone know what "Fats" Coffey's first name was?

Grew up watchin' Wide World of Sports with Jim McKay - must've seen Vinko's wipeout a few hundred times. And despite the repetition...it still has the power to shock.

If you ❤️ sports you gotta remember 😎

53 years ago, but I remember watching Wide World of Sports every week with my family. I was in elementary school then. Seems like yesterday. 🌐 🌎 ✌️ ☮️

I seen this back in the seventies and up until now I thought this guy was killed

That's what you call a full blown tag sale.

An S-58T produced in 1975 just recently crashed in Korea allegedly due to tail rotor malfunction as well, killing all 5 on board.

Every Saturday as a kid I watched this hosted by Jim McKay.

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I remember everyone saying that skier died back in the 70s during that crash. I'm glad that wasn't true...

"Look out! Oh, look at him go!" "Ohhh baby...what a terrible fall!"

Go to 0:52, set speed to 0.25x and watch the guy crouching against the jump ramp. He's very lucky to be alive.

LOVE ski jumping - it’s as if they’re FLYING!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

I had that model in the 70s with the D104 mike. I wish i still had it.

I just Googled Vinko. He’s still with us! Hang in there. That crash would have killed the average man. 👍👍👍👍

Be proud, you left great memories for the greatest generation ! an buy the way, if that dude wouldn't have ducked at the very bottom right of that ramp u would have taken his head off, us kids said u missed buy that much 🤏 get him next time.

Now I know his name "Vinko". We used to call him Mr. Agony.

On July 1, 1994, I made my first solo flight on just such a plane (with green lines). It had the registration S5-DCT. A few years later it was sold to Germany. I really loved this plane :)

Red helicopter landed runway after tail rotor failure

Wow,he just missed the head of a man standing on the right at the end,the guy ducked just in time

After so many years I still cringe watching that

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These dump trucks are too short in 75 I had a new one with a 202 inch wheel base and 16 foot dump bed .

he later jumped 400ft. stefan kraft has the record of over 800ft, twice the distance of vinkp. that really puts things in perspective

Ooooaaoooooohhhhhhh!!!…BABY…..what a terrible fall… The commentary is as legend as the accident itself

“What a terrible fall!!!”🤣🤣🤣🤣

Doesn't even sound like she tried to stop her mother in law from shooting the helicopter

Smart for that camera man to duck

Poor fella had to relive that over and over every single weekend for years on end on ABCs Wide World of Sports intro

Glad he wasn't seriously hurt and besides he actually has bragging rights about Muhammad Ali asking him for an autograph because of this famous crash.

He had no idea he had become so well-known in the USA. One time, Bob Costas asked Jim McKay: "Where is that poor guy?"

must have ate too much before the jump.

Ah, the 70s! We didn't need no stinking helmets!

I’m amazed that all Vinko suffered from that fall was a mild concussion and a broken ankle. I’m glad he recovered and got to go to the Wild World of Sports anniversary where he got the longest and loudest standing ovation of anyone there.