A skydiver was knocked unconscious in mid-air before plunging 10,000ft without a parachute - but miraculously survived and now says she 'cannot wait for next jump'.

Experienced parachutist Holly Wiffen, 35, admits she is lucky to be alive after a fellow jumper accidentally kicked her in the head, knocking her out.

Plummeting to earth at high speed, her life was saved when she hit a conifer tree, breaking her fall before she was discovered and rushed to hospital in Nottingham.

The skydiver - a veteran of 425 jumps - is now recovering at home after badly breaking her left leg and fracturing her spine during the accident on August 7.

GoPro camera footage shows the moment Ms Wiffen plunges into freefall before benefitting from the luckiest of escapes. 

She can be seen with around eight other passengers leaping from a plane into a clear blue sky using a technique known as 'tracking', which involves building up speed through falling horizontally.

The group of jumpers disperse as they descend, but one of them collides with Ms Wiffen just as she is moving into position, sending a piece of debris flying and leaving her unconscious.

The parachutist immediately plummets to earth from her spot at around 12,000ft following the crash which took place at 100mph, The Sun reports.

Ms Wiffen then falls to earth at 150mph with other skydivers appearing to notice her accident and attempt to follow her down and grab hold of her.

One tries and fails to grasp her with his hand and is forced to unfurl his own parachute just 3,000ft above ground. 

The unconscious jumper then disappears out of shot, at which point some of her colleagues thought she was going to die, she said. 

At some point - probably at around 1,000ft according to Ms Wiffen - she pulled her ripcord, even though she has no memory of her freefall.

This released an emergency chute, but just seconds later a secondary chute was deployed because it registered that she was travelling too fast and at too low an altitude. 

The combination of the two chutes served to create a 'downplane' effect, increasing her speed to around 40 to 50mph at the crucial moment.

But in a miraculous turn of events, Ms Wiffen crashes into a conifer tree positioned in the middle of vast swathes of open fields.

This greatly softened her landing, likely saving her life when a collision with open road or a power line might have proved fatal.

The dental therapist ended up landing hundreds of feet away from the field at which she was supposed to arrive.

She might have suffered a near-death experience, but Ms Wiffen is already planning her next skydive.

'If I hadn’t hit the tree I would have hit the ground and would have been soup. Most people don’t survive skydiving accidents like that.

'I want to get back to skydiving as soon as I can.

'Although, knowing what happened and that I could have died also makes me a little nervous.' 

Ms Wiffen added that she does not remember her fall, but that she felt like she was dreaming about skydiving during that time.

When she finally came to, the parachutist was lying on the ground with her leg pointing in the wrong direction. 

Her reserve chute was stuck in the conifer tree and she had to wait for her fellow jumpers to scramble through thickets of brambles to find her. 

She was placed on a stretcher and rushed to hospital, where she was operated on six days later.

Ms Wiffen is currently recovering at her parents' farm after being discharged from hospital.

The enthusiastic skydiver also rides a motorbike and does rock climbing so it is little surprise the thrill-seeker wants to get back to jumping out of planes. 

Skydiving expert Allan Hewitt said the accident would be investigated, adding that collisions such as this were rare.