Tom Cruise Sets New Guinness Record with Insane ‘Mission: Impossible’ Stunt

Tom Cruise hung off a biplane for real in Mission: Impossible – the Final Reckoning, which is highly impressive on its own.

Cruise’s Ethan Hunt grabs a parachute from the damaged biplane and leaps out. But his main chute catches on fire. So, Hunt cuts away his main chute and then deploys his reserve chute at the last second.

But this stunt was, also, done practically — with Cruise leaping from a helicopter at 7,500 feet in Drakensberg, South Africa with a fuel-soaked main parachute that was rigged to be set ablaze. He performed the highly dangerous stunt 16 times.

he Guinness Book of World Records declared that Cruise set a record for “the most burning parachute jumps by an individual.”