After leaping out of a flaming jet, a former UK Special Forces member was given a 5% chance of life, yet he amazingly survived to tell the tale.

Jamie Hull was on his way to Afghanistan in 2007 when his jet exploded into flames, swiftly approaching the cockpit where he was seated.

When the plane began to descend, Jamie, a novice pilot at the time, was forced to ‘think on his feet’ about what to do next.

Jamie described the encounter as a ‘horror’ as the flames engulfed his lower limbs. However, the former soldier managed to scramble onto the aircraft’s left wing and leap out.

“I landed like a sack of spuds,” he explained to the Veterans’ Foundation.

“It was a ‘boom’ into the ground, feet first.” So I lunged forward, slamming my face into the long, Florida razor grass.

“And immediately I remembered the aircraft, and I quickly got myself into the fetal position on the ground.”

The jet crashed around 70 feet away from Jamie and detonated immediately after landing.

Jamie believes he lived to see another day because he was ‘fit as a butcher’s dog’ at the time of the tragedy.

“I was very fit, so that is what helped me tolerate the initial trauma,” Jamie stated.

“The worst part was that I was actually 63 percent third and fourth-degree burns, and fourth-degree bones mean it’s down to the bone,” he continued.

“I was in a dire place and in a dire situation.”

Jamie described himself as having a ‘life on a thread’ during the horrific encounter, and surgeons in the United States offered him a 5% chance of survival.

He then spent 17 months in burn units in the United Kingdom and needed many operations.

Understandably, Jamie claimed he went through a very gloomy phase of his life approximately 18 months following his injury, particularly when he had to relearn fundamental abilities like walking and writing.

He then gave himself the goal of regaining military fitness, and he soon found himself walking an astonishing eight kilometers every day.

“I was healing in the body, and I was healing in the mind, and that’s what it was all about,” Jamie said of his workout routine.

“From there, my life metaphorically grew wings again.”

Jamie has subsequently gone on to compete in the Invictus Games, run the London Marathon, and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, collecting thousands of pounds for military charities.

Mentally, he’s in a much better position and now considers himself to be “one of the lucky ones.”