Posted on 01/28/2014 9:20:39 PM PST by Doogle
A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday.
Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wethington when she was flown Saturday from a skydiving school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.
"I don't know the particulars of the accident as I wasn't there. But if she truly fell 3,000 feet, I have no idea how she survived," Bender said at a news conference at the hospital, where the girl's parents also spoke to reporters.
Not only did she survive, but she was in good condition Tuesday, Bender said, and was expected to leave the intensive care unit. Still, she has a long recovery ahead. Bender said it will be several weeks before she can bear any weight.
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Good for the girl. It’s a shame she has an idiot for a father.
Does this qualify as a miracle?
I’m sure she thinks so.
.....always said, “if I was meant to fly, I’d spend time sitting on a branch and sh**ing through feathers”
He’s setting up for the payday.
“”I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.””
“, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.”
good condition can be a relative term
“I’m suing! Somebody should have stopped me!!!”
lol
Pathetic.
Life is too precious to risk it for frivolous reasons. Life and limb should only be put on the line when faced with extreme circumstances such as saving a life or defending freedom!
She’s from Texas, but was too young to jump there, so she and her father drove to OK. They took a six hour basic parachuting class (static line). Because of the load balance being what it was... the father was asked to jump first. He did. The daughter jumped next. Apparently, a third jumper refused to jump. There was a jumpmaster, that was obligated to ride back down with the no go jumper. He did.
The injured jumper had a partial malfunction of some kind. The report I heard said she was spinning and couldn’t cut away. I don’t know why or if she even tried. Perhaps she was wrapped up in the canopy or had something close to a horseshoe malfunction where part of the canopy was open and part of it was somehow still attached to her body, or the suspension lines were attached to her body in such a way as to not allow the canopy to open properly.
She impacted the ground and lived. Often in a case where the jumper lives, several factors come into play- like, landing in grass or a plowed field, enough of an open canopy to slow the fall rate to a survivable speed, landing in such a way so that the body distributes the force across the entire body or most of the body, resilient spirit, quick medical treatment, etc. She’s very lucky. The parents were already talking about suing the facility.
An amazing quote in my opinion. Absolutely mind-boggling!
something went wrong....it happens.....
but now in retrospect, he thinks it was a bad idea for that dang skyjumping school to come drag their dtr out of the house and FORCE her to jump from a plane...../sarcasm/
It's obvious that the parents are to blame as they have the last say as to what their children can & can't do, unless of course it is abortion I guess.
Here is what the father said for those that didn't read the article.
"I don't think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn't have been allowed," Joe Wethington said at the news conference. "I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don't think it's through the state of Oklahoma. I think it's the company. I'm not sure."
Damn fool. Jury trial in chickasha. Looser pays all. School should take that bet.
A nation of idiots.
He’s setting up for the payday.
“”I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.””
You are right - ready to sue.
I don’t think he is idiotic for allowing it. I’m glad my dad allowed me and my brothers to race moto-x when we were kids. But sometimes things go wrong and it is not anyone’s fault. This guy is sue happy and wants to stop everybody else from ever experiencing anything that might hurt their kid.
Parachuting is fun, and good for the attitude.
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