An SAS soldier was critically injured in a horror parachuting accident during a covert night-time operation against the Islamic State in Iraq.
The trooper suffered horrific injuries when he crashed to the ground in a mid-air collision with a US special forces soldier who was also severely injured.
They managed to raise the alarm which sparked a major rescue operation over fears that the injured soldiers could be captured by IS jihadists.
Both soldiers were working on the same secret operation and had jumped from planes at 18,000ft before they crashed into each other, Daily Mail reports.
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