“She suffered several horrific injuries, but somehow she’s still alive to tell her story.”
Reminds me of a scene from F Troop. “He fly real good, but he land real bad.”
I fought the Law of Gravity, and the Law won...
Relax Body
Never a logical reason to jump from a perfectly good airplane.
This article says it was 125 mph:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/skydiver-survives-after-slamming-to-the-ground-at-125-mph/
“...a broken back, leg, and ankle...”
If at first you don’t succeed . . . don’t try skydiving.
Jordan Splatmaker.
That must have been one long minute.
How much praying can you pack into one minute?
Eighty or one hundred something my ass. Not STRAIGHT down at any rate you hit the ground at forty and it’s iffy as hell. Don’t ask me how I know this.
First case I’ve seen where the chute didn’t open and you can take it back.
Leaving a perfectly good airplane in flight doesn’t strike me as entertainment. But hey I used to drive motorcycles like an idiot when I was young….so whatever blows one’s skirt up.
Hi.
I’m sketchy on the details because it was a while ago, and maybe some FReepers here can add more details.
The Golden Knights, I believe it was Ft. Hood, TX where the training was conducted, were practicing a jump. One of the soldiers couldn’t link up, and had to abort. He was about 3000’ when he experienced a streamer. Back up got caught in the streamer.
Don’t remember the estimated velocity he was traveling, but he went through a hanger window on the roof and his “chute” caught the hanger window.
He stopped three feet from the floor of the hanger.
He went back to duty six months later.
5.56mm
She is lucky to be alive.
For Sale: One used parachute. Never opened. One small stain.
Most of the high altitude freefalls were military. Iirc, the bulk of them occurred in WWII, though other wars have contributed to the total. Most were pilots or aircrew who decided to jump rather than burn. Terminal velocity is terminal velocity. Deep snow helps. Several came down in pine forests that broke the fall. My favorite story remains Alan Magee, the B-17 ball turret gunner with a damaged parachute who lost consciousness and was sucked out of the plane when AA fire ripped it open. He survived a 22,000 foot freefall by crashing through the glass skylight in the St Nazaire train station. He was of course badly injured but the German docs saved him.
This gal has a pretty good story to tell. She probably won’t have to buy her own drinks for a while.
If I were her, I'd stick to making hats. That said, there's something about that brace she's wearing that I find titillating.