At First Glance this Sounds like a Hopeful and Promising Prospect!

But I've Read, -a Bit Ruefully, -that even if you Somehow Timed your Physical Jumpup Perfectly! To Jumping Just At or Before the Elevator's Final Impact Point, -Your so Doing in a High Rise Elevator Fall will at Most Only Reduce your 60 or so M.P.H. Speed by a Few M.P.H.! Still the Effect of a Speeding Car Running Head On into a Thick Concrete Wall!

Not Enough! And Not Enough to Make any Really Effective Difference! So that Idea is Unfortunately Something of a Non-Starter!

Oh you could Still Do It in Principle! And Out of your Still Present Will and Determination to Live! And Hit at Least a Little Less Hard! But Even There it would Make Practically No Difference! And There's Still the Matter of Neccessarily Perfect Timing!, -Something which you Aren't Likely to be Able to Accurately Guage!, -in any Event.

And to Boot!, -If you Misguage your Timing a Bit!, -You'd *ADD*!, -Not Subtract!, -Several Miles per Hour from your Final Impact Speed!

Elevators Falling from Far Smaller Heights May be a Good Bit More Hopeful! Whether or Not you Jump Up Inside, at the Appropriate Time!

Your Best Bet here, -or Indeed in any Falling Elevator Situation, -May Be to Get Yourself into the Best Crash Position as you Can! What Little to No Good that will Often Do you!, too!

Of course in the Rather Unlikely Event, -that you or Others there with you, -are Carrying a Sizeable Enuff Quantity of Blankets or Other Soft Materials, -You can Quickly Set Yourself On and About these, -as a Sort of Cushion! Even That may Often Only Do So Much Good!

I'm Afraid that this is Very Much to Entirely the Unfortunate Story!, -When it Comes to Finding Yourself Entrapped!, -in a Free Falling Elevator! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]