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Skydive Murder plot: My husband sabotaged my parachute and I fell 4,000ft to the ground
The Sun ^ | June 8 | Kate Noble

Posted on 06/09/2024 9:05:36 AM PDT by RandFan

It was the shocking true crime that gripped Netflix subscribers who watched documentary The Parachute Murder Plot and now Channel 4 looks to retell that jaw-dropping story.

A brand new series will lay bare the incidents of the attempted murder of skydiver Victoria Cilliers by her husband Emile - over three nights with dramatic reconstructions

In April 2015, Victoria plummeted a horrifying 4,000ft at Netheravon airfield, Wiltshire, after her main and reserve parachutes failed to open.

Miraculously, although she suffered a broken spine and pelvis and fractured ribs, she did survive because she landed on freshly plough farmland.

The subsequent investigation revealed that her kit had been tampered with by her husband, Army sergeant Emile, but Victoria, a victim of coercive control, didn’t want to believe that the man she loved could be so callous – and she herself tried to cover up his heinous crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


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To: RandFan

Clearly, the “falling” part was not the problem...


21 posted on 06/09/2024 9:43:17 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: RandFan

“Oops. D’ya mean those bungee straps don’t connect to the other flap?”

Never let ANYONE ELSE pack your bag.


22 posted on 06/09/2024 9:45:47 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: SamAdams76

Lesson #2: Never jump out of perfectly good airplanes.


23 posted on 06/09/2024 9:46:23 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: SamAdams76

I was involved with skydiving for a short time many moons ago and we always packed our own main chutes. But I don’t remember packing the reserve chute. The skydiving club was a on the Army base and I think maybe we had official Army parachute riggers for that.


24 posted on 06/09/2024 9:47:49 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: VTenigma

As long as the vertical descent is less than my terminal velocity, I would stay in the plane.


25 posted on 06/09/2024 9:49:08 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: smokingfrog

It had to be a near crushing experience.


26 posted on 06/09/2024 9:50:49 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

After seeing your post I found the article below, which references FreeRepublic from 20 years ago which I also linked.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wwii-gunner-fell-22000-feet-without-a-parachute-and-survived.html

https://freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1071076/posts


27 posted on 06/09/2024 9:51:40 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: SamAdams76

“Lesson: Always pack your own parachute.”

She did.


28 posted on 06/09/2024 9:53:22 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: smokingfrog

It’s about 45 years since my brief experience with sport parachuting, but as I recall reserve chutes had to be packed by a licensed rigger.


29 posted on 06/09/2024 9:56:03 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: RandFan

Gory, gory what a helluva way to die!


30 posted on 06/09/2024 9:59:20 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Actually a Tom Petty song came to mine.


31 posted on 06/09/2024 10:07:59 AM PDT by diverteach (Pureblood proud and unashamed !)
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To: reasonisfaith

Thanks for the links. I read through the FR comments; interesting that the last comment was posted 7 1/2 years after the first.


32 posted on 06/09/2024 10:10:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: NorthMountain

“And [s]he ain’t gonna jump no more!”

I remember that song.


33 posted on 06/09/2024 10:11:57 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Vendome

It seems like her marriage was in a free-fall.


34 posted on 06/09/2024 10:20:19 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

IIRC, the British tail gunner had a sprained ankle and a broken wrist.


35 posted on 06/09/2024 10:22:07 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Red Badger

Tom Petty:

Free Falling


36 posted on 06/09/2024 10:27:38 AM PDT by Revel
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To: ClearCase_guy

I was only mostly dead.


37 posted on 06/09/2024 10:35:05 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: SamAdams76

“Lesson: Always pack your own parachute.”

Perhaps. But I can’t help but admire US Navy jet pilot Charles Plumb’s attitude about it, in another great war story from this article, “Who Packs Your Parachute?”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kareanderson/2015/11/18/who-packs-your-parachute/


38 posted on 06/09/2024 10:41:24 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Revel

Why do they call it a terrible fall? The fall was painless. It was hitting the ground that causes the damage.


39 posted on 06/09/2024 10:43:29 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

Good point, but then there’s the state of mind during the fall?


40 posted on 06/09/2024 10:46:55 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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