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

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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.