Woman survives 23-storey fall

A WOMAN survived after plummeting from the 23rd storey of a Buenos Aires hotel when a waiting taxi broke her fall.

She landed in a sitting position on its roof just after the driver got out. The impact deeply dented the roof and shattered the windscreen.

The 30-year-old woman suffered multiple injuries and was being treated in hospital.

The taxi driver, Miguel Cajal, narrowly escaped death, he told a Buenos Aires television station, C5N.

Mr Cajal said he saw a police officer looking up and, following his glance, also looked up. He saw the woman falling and got out of his cab just moments before the impact.

The woman fell from the top of the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano, where a restaurant overlooks the landmark Obelisk in central Buenos Aires.

The woman, a 30-year- old Argentine, was rushed to the nearby Hospital Argerich, where she was being operated on for injuries including internal bleeding and broken hips and ribs, Alberto Crescenti, director of Argentina’s Emergency Medical System, said. He estimated she fell nearly 330 feet and landing in a sitting position had saved her life.