LUCKY ESCAPE
Music industry executive survived a 200ft plunge onto jagged rocks after he lost his footing on a clifftop
The music boss is lucky to be alive after doctors said that the nightmare fall 'would have killed most people'
A TOP music boss survived a 200ft plunge on to jagged rocks after he lost his footing on a clifftop.
Andy Godfrey, 60, broke his back and breast bone, fractured his skull and cracked all of his ribs on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
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Andy said: "It was like an out-of-body experience.
"I don't remember hitting the rocks at the foot of the cliff."
Andy tried to move but couldn't.
Dr Tom Mallison said: “I have never seen anyone fall from that height and survive. It would have killed most people.”
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He was treated by a first-aid trained climber who scaled down the cliff face before being airlifted to hospital.
Andy, who is vice-president of copyright at BMG UK and lives in London, said he was also lucky not to be paralysed.
He added: “I was back up on my feet 24 hours later. I feel very lucky.”
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