An escape artist has parachuted safely to the ground after freeing himself from handcuffs and a locked coffin while it was falling at 210km/h from 14,500ft in the air.

An escape artist has parachuted safely to the ground after freeing himself from handcuffs and a locked coffin while it was falling at 130mph from 14,500 feet in the air.

Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads down in a massive snowflake formation in northern Illinois.