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Pregnant Skydiver Survives Face-First Plunge Into Ground

POSTED: 9:54 am EST December 13, 2005

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. -- Shayna Richardson will have a story to tell her baby someday -- and she'll have the videotape to prove it.

Richardson was making her first solo jump in Siloam Springs, Ark., when her main parachute failed and her reserve chute didn't fully deploy.

She was falling at about 50 mph when she hit face-first in a parking lot. She then spent 16 days in a hospital, where she had multiple surgeries.

Richardson told a Fort Smith television station that she didn't find out until she was at the hospital that she was pregnant. She says she wouldn't have jumped had she known she was expecting.

Her baby is due June 25. Richardson plans to make her next parachute jump in August.

Her fall was videotaped, and Richardson said she's able to watch it. After all, she said, she knows it turns out OK in the end.

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