Murder in Midair: The Victoria Cilliers Story of Deception and Survival"

By Dawn R. Garrett

A true story of love, betrayal, and survival against impossible odds.
On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced skydiver and Army physiotherapist Victoria Cilliers leapt from a plane at 4,000 feet. She expected the familiar rush of adrenaline, the safety of her parachute, the joy of freefall. Instead, both her main and reserve parachutes failed. Plummeting at over 60 miles per hour, she smashed into a ploughed field and survived.
What at first looked like a tragic accident soon revealed something far more chilling: deliberate sabotage. Investigators discovered that Victoria's husband, Army sergeant Emile Cilliers, had secretly tampered with her parachute and just days earlier, had tried to kill her by loosening gas valves in their home. His motive? Mounting debts, multiple affairs, and the promise of life insurance money.
Murder in Midair is the shocking true crime account of one of Britain's most extraordinary attempted murders. More than a story of deception, it is a testament to resilience. From the courtroom drama that gripped the nation to Victoria's own memoir I Survived, and finally her symbolic remarriage at the very airfield where she almost died, this book explores how a woman betrayed in the most unimaginable way chose not just to survive, but to rise stronger.
Inside these pages you'll discover: The chilling details of the gas-leak and parachute sabotage.How coercive control, financial manipulation, and infidelity escalated into attempted murder.The trial that exposed Emile Cilliers' double life.Victoria's long physical and emotional recovery, and her ultimate act of closure.True crime. Survival. Resilience.
Murder in Midair is more than the story of a fall, it's the story of a rise.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNW2DK1G
• ISBN13: 9798262325627
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"