What If You Fell from an Airplane Into Fresh Snow?

How much can landing in snow protect you from a fall? We've seen it save people who jumped off a roof. Or dived off a cliff. And yes, they even fell from the top of a mountain! But what about a fall from even higher up? Like, from an airplane? How much snow would be required to break that kind of fall?

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