Scott Listemann is searching for something very precious to him. He was on a routine skydiving jump when suddenly he lost his prosthetic leg.
"I never felt anything slide off," Listemann tells INSIDE EDITION. "I had no inclination my leg was gone. I looked down and saw that it was missing."
Listemann combed the area confident that his titanium prosthetic leg survived the fall.
However, he says looking for the leg is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The 47-year-old's foot was crushed and then amputated, the result of a job accident. His prosthetic limb costs $12,000, and that's $12,000 Listemann says he just doesn't have if he should need to replace the leg.
Local residents in Listemann's upstate New York town are keeping a lookout.
But something as minor as losing his leg will do nothing to keep this daredevil grounded. He's going back up to skydive with just one leg!
He uses crutches to head out to the plane at the Big Sky Ranch Skydiving School. As he climbs aboard, he gives INSIDE EDITON the thumbs up.
At 13,000 ft., Listemann climbs out and jumps, even performing an aerial stunt with his team.
The trickiest part, of course, will be the landing. He heads in, one leg buckling as he hits the ground at 40 MPH!
A friend carries his crutches and discovers Listemann is not only okay, he's ecstatic!
Not a perfect landing, but he says he hasn't lost hope that his missing leg will turn up. "I hope someone finds my leg and returns it to me. My life would be so much better and easier," he says.