[MeatteCen]

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.

http://www.wgal.com/news/5524542/detail.html

[Erunsenef]

I cringed!

It definetly was not her time to go! :eek

[dubballey]

She must be blonde if she didn't know she was 3 mo pg. Nope not her time to go.

[HootSnori]

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.

[chuecafresss]

just watched her interview on Good Mornin America.. she said on the way down, she prayed to God to spare her pain when she landed.. she didnt mind 'going' to Heaven , just she didn't want any pain. After she landed and realized she was still alive, she thanked God for answering her prayer.. she didnt have any pain , to speak of. She said God had a hand in her survival and thru His Love she was spared.

As they say.. there are no athiests in foxholes.. or when skydiving.

[Erunsenef]

How would you like to be this guy? :eek

[chuecafresss]

YIKES Dusty.!!!

hope he can swim.. VERY fast!! LOL

[jokiruss]

I saw this girl on the news. The impact smashed her face and knocked out all of her front teeth.

I don't understand how she would jump again, especially after having a baby...