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**HootSnori** · 12-14-2005, 11:35 AM

Also not her baby's time to go...

Both of 'em are incredibly lucky.

She must've had both chutes fouled in each other. Or perhaps one partially deployed... otherwise, she'd likely be doing a lot more than 50mph.

I was at a skydiving/ultralight-flying field [Elsinore] and heard a skydiver hit the ground. What a sickening sound. Having fouled his main chute, he intended to cut-away his main [actually not really "cut"...just pull some pins out of his harness] and deploy his reserve, a situation skydivers train for. Somehow, he had accidentally cut-away BOTH his main and reserve chutes.

After I heard him hit, I turned around, didn't see anything. I then looked up and saw his main chute at about 1,000 feet, billowing as it and the undeployed reserve chute fell slowly. It wasn't until I saw other skydivers running towards where he had "augered-in" that I realized what had happened. His body was steaming in the cool morning air.

Yeah, this lady was lucky... she should've bought a lottery ticket, it was definitely her lucky day.

12-14-2005, 11:35 AM	#4
HootSnori Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Also not her baby's time to go... Both of 'em are incredibly lucky. She must've had both chutes fouled in each other. Or perhaps one partially deployed... otherwise, she'd likely be doing a lot more than 50mph. I was at a skydiving/ultralight-flying field [Elsinore] and heard a skydiver hit the ground. What a sickening sound. Having fouled his main chute, he intended to cut-away his main [actually not really "cut"...just pull some pins out of his harness] and deploy his reserve, a situation skydivers train for. Somehow, he had accidentally cut-away BOTH his main and reserve chutes. After I heard him hit, I turned around, didn't see anything. I then looked up and saw his main chute at about 1,000 feet, billowing as it and the undeployed reserve chute fell slowly. It wasn't until I saw other skydivers running towards where he had "augered-in" that I realized what had happened. His body was steaming in the cool morning air. Yeah, this lady was lucky... she should've bought a lottery ticket, it was definitely her lucky day.
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