Why anybody wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane is beyond me....................
I feel bad for her family.
“Police did not provide a cause of death.”
Put in some overtime, boys, and you might figure it out.
And she ain’t gonna jump no more...
If my chute don’t blossom round,
I’ll be the first one on the ground.
Parachuting is something I'd never do voluntarily.
Now if the plane I was on was going down, I guess I'd have to strap one on and hope for the best.
MEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee
My roommate back in ‘81 was cop and it was a slow Sunday and he was on duty so I went for a ride along. A call came over the radio about a skydiver whose chute didn’t open up. He responded to the scene at the local airport. Talk about splat. His head was flat because his brains had squirted out the top, and every large bone in his body was sticking out through the skin.
The folks on the ground said this was his 300th jump and afterward he was so supposed to fly to England to join in with other skydivers to try to set the world record for something. The he was to come home and get married.
As they say in Full Metal Jacket... “no more boom-boom for this babysan”
Live fast. Die fast.
A couple posters made the statement about jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. That can’t be done except as a sport.
Choosing to launch oneself out of an aircraft might be exhilarating, but it has risks even with good equipment, instructors, and aircraft modified to accomplish the desire. But it is a sport and has nothing to do with any purpose other than sport.
Common passenger airliner doors are about 6 feet tall by 3.5 feet wide. This means that to open the door, one would need to overcome more than 24,000 pounds of pressure — about the weight of six cars or 20 polar bears. Most airliners also use “plug-type” doors that fit tightly onto the door frame.
And opening the door on say a Cessna 152 or a Beech Craft Bonanza may not affect the aerodynamics, but the door opens out so the wind rushing past the nose of the plane washes past the door preventing it from opening more than a couple of inches at best. So the old adage of jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is a bit of a misnomer. If it came to that, a forced landing is the next step but that is not a perfectly good aircraft.
Sad it happened, but people fall climbing mountains and having a heart event in a marathon happen at about the same rate. And the most dangerous part of flying itself is the trip out to the airport in the car.
Wy69
And yet she will probably be tested for Covid — just in case.
Ever been in a big meeting: File you need won’t open?
Replace “file” with “chute”.
That’s why I say no to skydiving.
Any sport that will kill you on the first failure is not for me. I have read numerous articles which stressed how many successful jumps the deceased had, but they always ended with "funeral services will be held".
It's like saying"The Russian Roulette player was successful 1,000 times, but . . ."
She didn’t realize the gravity of the situation until it was too late.
Prayers for the Woman, her Family and Friends.
I would NEVER trust someone else to pack my chute!
I would NEVER trust MYSELF to pack my chute!
No skydiving for me.
You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving, you need one if you are going to do it a second time.
Watch some YouTube videos of chutes getting tangled. Cured my curiosity for good......
Gravity sucks
There is a funny brief exchange in the movie “Bridge Over the River Kwai” about the dangers of parachuting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvSc3bjXcD0
Bottom Line: Do a dangerous act often enough, eventually your luck will run out/number comes up/etc.
Of course, you have to wonder about last thoughts. I assume, in a case like this, a lot of that time was spent trying to figure out how to untangle the chute so it would fully deploy. That is, maybe her thoughts were fully absorbed, perhaps until almost the last moment, with the struggle to reverse oncoming disaster.
But, in other cases, there’s considerable time between that moment of irreversibility and death: like the business man in his sports jacket who was photographed jumping to his death from his burning Trade Center tower on 9/11; or the “protection-free” climbers who fall while climbing sheer rock faces like El Capitan in Yosemite or other famous sites worldwide. It takes some time to fall from that far up...
Yeah, I agree. It’s indecent, morbid, perhaps even purient, to ask what their final thoughts were. Still...