Posted on 02/23/2022 7:36:09 AM PST by rktman
The skydiving pair was spotted midair struggling to deploy their parachutes, local resident Alex Arias, who witnessed the incident, told KPRC. The male instructor was reportedly unconscious after hitting the ground while the female student was awake and calling for help. “He let off his primary and then the secondary shoot like opened halfway up so he didn’t fall like a straight fall, he was like 50 percent shoot, like a corkscrew,” Arias said, KPRC reported.
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Guess they couldn’t spell ‘chute’ correctly.
Maybe it’s a 2nd amendment thing?
Is it time to start chuting?
Wow harsh. Poor guy.
A really outdoorsy gal I used to hang out with all the time had a story that she had signed up and paid for skydiving lessons, and on her very first dive - not tandem - something went wrong with her chute. She got it mostly pulled out so she didn’t fall straight down. She was conscious after landing but very dazed. She said all she could think of is the instructions that if you miss the target you should start picking up your chute immediately so she started staggering around gathering the chute up.
Some people in a car came screeching tires: They had seen her landing and supposed they would find a dead body in a rather gross condition. They were astounded to find her up and walking around. She didn’t sustain any major injuries.
She didn’t have any further desire to go skydiving after that, however.
NEVER JUMP OUT OF A PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANE!..........................
Not according to this post:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4040748/posts
Don’t chute until you see the whites of their eyes. :)
No getting back on that horse.
I remember our orientation at Airborne School. “The sky, like the sea, is unforgiving.”
So, if you must fly you prefer the inside of the plane then? LOL! Me too. Butt, now I’m probably done flying anywhere for any reason. Money and stoopid restrictions and crews being mandated to get vaxxed. I can drive to the place I WANT to go to.
The sea is for sure unforgiving.
Never say never, but as a general rule I avoid going up in the air for any reason.
Here’s a cute story: Almost 20 years ago this one doctor I saw on a first-and-only-time visit (trying to get an order so I could have massage therapy for my messed-up shoulder) got REALLY upset with me for admitting that I was a drunk. I was like, “So...I’m not supposed to tell the truth, here?” I didn’t make a follow-up appointment and she told me (angrily) to see an orthopedist about my shoulder. (The orthopedist had told me to see this doctor. Haha. Story of my life.)
So I slunk away with my tail between my legs. A couple of years later, with my shoulder still bothering me, I happened to notice an article in the local news about this doctor.
She had died in a ballooning accident out over the Pacific Ocean, trying to set a record. I guess she went missing. She had an unusual last name so I knew it was her and not some other adventuresome gal.
Ah, those existential moments! *drinks*
There was no mention in the article on what actually happened.
“For the life of me I could never understand the willingness to jump out of a perfectly good airplane... and I don’t even like to fly....”
I hate flying. When I traveled for business, my team would have to get me loaded to get through the passageway to the plane.
He let off his primary and then the secondary shoot like opened halfway up so he didn’t fall like a straight fall, he was like 50 percent shoot, like a corkscrew,”It think a "shoot" must be "like" a chute...
If first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
Skydiving. Mountain climbing. Bungee jumping...I can’t see doing things like that wherein you can end up dead for the thrill of it.
Covid was discovered on the parachute....
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