Parachute fails leaving skydiving instructor dead, female student survives

wnd.com ^ | 2/21/2022 1338 hrs et | Harry Wilmerding

[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.

[rktman]

🙌

[Rappini]

Made three jumps with All American sport Parachute Club in the 60’s met my wife and that was that. Thankfully.

[Irish Eyes]

NEVER JUMP OUT OF A PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANE!..........................

I could not agree more. Many years ago took sky diving lessons and had one jump. That did it for me.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"I remember our orientation at Airborne School. “The sky, like the sea, is unforgiving.”"

Well, its not the sky as much as the edges of the sky that are the problem.

[Joe 6-pack]

"“The sky, like the sea, is unforgiving.”" Well, its not the sky as much as the edges of the sky that are the problem."

Yeah, when I heard that, my thought was, "it's the ground that's not forgiving," but when you're an 18 year old kid with a shaved head, standing in formation, one of the last things you want to do is open a philosophical debate with an E7 wearing a combat patch on his left shoulder and a CIB on his chest.

[Graybeard58]

And don’t get me started on the misuse of homonyms these days.

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Are you homonymphobic?

[JimRed]

I was a paratrooper in the Army. I got paid $55 a month extra for risking my life with each jump. Once I got out I never had the desire to do it again.

Current jump pay is $150 or $225 (HALO) per month. It'll buy about the same number of beers as your $55 used to.