AN eight-year-old boy has being hailed as "incredibly lucky" after he survived a 200m fall and suffered only a fractured leg.
The boy fell from a viewing platform at Dangars Falls, near Armidale, and slid 200m down a slope, after climbing through the cordoned area to retrieve a personal item on Saturday.
"Just below the platform is a walkable area, but he's slipped again somehow," NSW Ambulance duty operations manager Inspector Neale Waters said in a statement.
"It was a slide and roll affair and the momentum kept him going.
"He came to rest about 200m from the viewing platform. What's stopped him from falling to the bottom, I don't know. It's about a 300m drop so there was another 100m to go."
Insp Waters described the boy as "incredibly lucky".
A NSW Ambulance paramedic went to the boy's aid, taking a splint "because we were told the patient had a fractured femur before we went down to him".
"(The boy) had a talk to mum and dad," Insp Waters said.
"There were civilians down there who had a CB radio which helped us a lot. We had no communication."
A helicopter winched the boy out after five hours.
The boy was flown to Tamworth airport before being taken Tamworth Base Hospital. He is in a stable condition.
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