Missed it by THAT much!!!
Posted on 09/06/2009 12:34:18 PM PDT by Chet 99
LEBANON, Ohio — A Kentucky man skydiving in Ohio was injured when his parachute failed and his backup chute opened about 50 feet above ground.
Fifty-seven-year-old Steve Stoll of Louisville, Ky., was skydiving at the Warren County Airport in Lebanon about 7:15 p.m. Saturday.
Dispatchers said the jumper's parachute failed and his backup opened before he hit the ground.
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Pit bull gnawed his gear? :)
Attempt?
LOL
“Dispatchers said the jumper’s parachute failed and his backup opened before he hit the ground”
So if it had opened after he hit the ground would he have been ok?
I’d say that he got the diving part right. It was the stopping part that needs a little work.
Missed it by THAT much!!!
its not the fall, its the sudden stop
jump out of a perfectly good airplane???
there’s yer problem.
Why couldn’t he just wait for the plane to land ?
The problem with “live like you are dying” is sometimes you kill yourself.
It isn’t the jump, it’s the sudden stop that does you in!
LOL, LOL, LOL
In Airborne, it was always said there was no such thing as a perfectly good airplane...
And... I remember my first time in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter... Going up the ramp, I looked up to see hydraulic fluid pouring from the ceiling of the helicopter, from just underneath the location of the rear rotor. I asked the crewman if that was not "a problem." His reply: "No, I don't worry about it until it stops dripping..." My thoughts were "Hope I get out of this thing alive."
Regards,
Raven6
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