Posted on 09/21/2009 8:51:44 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Authorities in Ohio say a parachute failed to fully open during a tandem jump at skydiving center, killing an instructor and his student. Witnesses on the ground say instructor Daniel Mathie and student Sierra Thomas spiraled to the ground Saturday night.
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Bad instructor. I’m not taking a class with him!
This is one of the reasons why i don’t parachute.
I refuse to do that and bungy jumping. It’s not the fall that kills ya. It’s that sudden stop at the end.
RIP
I’m sorry, but that is way to long to be staring death in the face for me. May their loved ones find comfort
If its a perfectly good airplane, I’ll ride it to the ground.
Never ever skydive with an instructor named “Pancake” ... just saying ....
I mentioned this story to a buddy of mine who has skydived a total of three times in his life.
I think we can all agree that falling to your death would suck about as much as possible. I imagine the final 3 to 5 seconds is absolute terror as you flail about, trying to save yourself, screaming all the way.
The only thing that would suck more is to have someone screaming in your ear the whole time, too.
I'm guessing that this is mostly to separate the various parts into two plastic bags.
That’s got to be bad for business.
Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Uh; in the article they said autopsies were pending. I think I know what killed them.....
WTF really?
He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright
He checked off his equipment and made sure his pack was tight;
He had to sit and listen to those awful engines roar,
“You ain’t gonna jump no more!”
(CHORUS)
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
He ain’t gonna jump no more!
“Is everybody happy?” cried the Sergeant looking up,
Our Hero feebly answered “Yes,” and then they stood him up;
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the cold, he felt the awful drop,
The silk from his reserve spilled out and wrapped around his legs,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome,
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones;
The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground.
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The days he’d lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind,
He thought about the girl back home, the one he’d left behind;
He thought about the medic corps and wondered what they’d find,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild,
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, rolled up their sleeves and smiled,
For it had been a week or more since last a ‘chute had failed,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
He hit the ground, the sound was “Splat,” his blood went spurting high,
His comrades they were hurt to say: “A helluva way to die!”
He lay there rolling round in the welter of his gore,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
(slowly, solemnly)
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute,
Intestines were a’dangling from his Paratrooper suit,
He was a mess; they picked him up, and poured him from his boots,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
Gory, gory, what a helluva way to die,
He ain’t gonna jump no more!
falling to your death while on fire would be worse...
Glad I never paid good money to have someone else help me fall to my death!
Darn! No Joke: Over the weekend I had begun my planning to use these guys starting in the spring of 2010. I better find another extreme sport!
I jumped at Cleveland Sport in the late 70’s and it was a safe, well run center. The original owners, Dale and Lucinda have retired, but their son Mike (according to the web) still runs it.
I wouldn’t hesitate to jump there again. Accidents can happen, but these folks had a better record at the time than some other drop zones, partiuclarly one down in Xenia, OH where a bunch of nuts called the Herd jumped.
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