re: Woman's Parachute Fails To Open And She Falls 5,000 Feet(And Lives)

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Thats such a tramatic experience, I wish the media wood just leaf her alone eta: or at least branch out to her relatives instead of her

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This is a really bad pun attempt

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The back seat was full so she had to ride to the hospital in the trunk. No dogs are known to have barked at her on the way.

Something good happens = god is great
Something terrible happens = god works in mysterious ways

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Something good happens = god is great
Something terrible happens = god works in mysterious ways

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Oh lawt

Always one

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Her parachute and reserve both failed to open. This means she was either unconscious, incredibly unlucky, or just hard headed... Both of those parachutes that must be pulled to deploy with the only exception being if she had an AAD on her reserve.

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The main chute probably deployed from the pack, but the canopy failed to open, and possibly due to lack of experience she pulled the reserve without cutting away the main. Leaving her with two tangled, unopened canopies trailing, but providing enough drag to slow her to a more survivable velocity.

The troubling thing is the 5000ft jump, if accurate. I'm guessing from the tenor of the short article she still had beginner status which would dictate she deploy at 4000-4500ft AGL, that means shite happens fast in a 5000ft AGL jump.

I am betting she was in a messy position (since she had to pull so quickly out of the plane) when she tried to deploy the main and spent too long trying to get air in the drag chute by stabilizing her position then wigged out as she started to see blades of grass and pulled the reserve before the main came out and that cause the main to deploy and she made the rest of the ride with a twisted mess following her down. Hell, she probably spent precious seconds worried about whether to drop her handle or not.

This is exactly why I wouldn't skydive/parachute. That's a huge fear of mine and I'm not willing to take that chance.

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I’m about 99.9% sure JBGleasin was making up BS.

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Actually no. I have never understood the mentality of someone that comes on here and just makes shite up. I know there are a few posters notorious for that. My friend lives in Fayetteville NC and got into skydiving because she was dating a Army SF guy that was a member of the Army skydiving team (can’t recall the name of the team. Navy equivalent is LeapFrogs because I knew one of those dudes). Anyway, she had two main chute failures in 60 jumps and had to go to reserve both times. Her boyfriend and I both talked her out of jumping after that. One failure was a “streamer” - tangled main. I can’t remember the details of the second but I know it was worse and actually scared her quite a bit.

A 5000ft dive sounds both lame and dangerous. That's not high at all. "

I want to hear about your sky diving adventures-how high have you jumped from?

Army skydiving team. Golden Knights