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Woman's Parachute Fails To Open And She Falls 5,000 Feet(And Lives)
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:11 pm
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She must be living right.
She must be living right.
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The woman, who’d been skydiving before, made her solo leap with the Parachutisme Adrenaline operation, and Demers said he soon saw her falling faster than anyone else around her.
That’s because, per Demers, neither her main chute nor her backup chute opened up. The woman landed in a cluster of trees, coming out of the plummet with multiple fractures, including broken vertebrae.
Still, cops say she’s not at risk of dying. Parachutisme Adrenaline is staying mum during the investigation, which police say is looking into whether there was any criminal negligence.
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Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:13 pm to MrLarson
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:13 pm to MrLarson
Incredible. She should play the lotto too with that luck.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:13 pm to MrLarson
Gracefully landed in some trees 
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:15 pm to MrLarson
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She must be living right.
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Parachute Fails To Open And She Falls 5,000 Feet
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coming out of the plummet with multiple fractures, including broken vertebrae.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:15 pm to MrLarson
Someone has some ‘splainin’ to do, with these modern chutes if you can cram in it to pack it’s going to deploy
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:16 pm to Ryan3232
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Gracefully landed in some trees
Doing 122 mph and hitting some trees
I wonder what kind of fuel mileage she was getting
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:17 pm to idlewatcher
quote:We have very different definitions of luck
She should play the lotto too with that luck.
This is like the "God is great" people who will respond on facebook about this story
Personally, God would be alot greater if he just let the parachute open sparing her the 5,000 foot fall and broken back
This post was edited on 8/15/19 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:17 pm to MrLarson
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I wonder what kind of fuel mileage she was getting
About tree fiddy.
I am sorry.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:20 pm to MrLarson
I have a friend who has had two major chute failures in her first 60 jumps. An unheard of failure rate. I convinced her to quit jumping.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:22 pm to jbgleason
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I have a friend who has had two major chute failures in her first 60 jumps. An unheard of failure rate. I convinced her to quit jumping.
Surprised it doesn't read, "had a friend".
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:22 pm to MrLarson
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
eta: or at least branch out to her relatives instead of her
This post was edited on 8/15/19 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:23 pm to MrLarson
Must of had big boobs
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:23 pm to MrLarson
A 5000ft dive sounds both lame and dangerous. That's not high at all.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:26 pm to idlewatcher
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Incredible. She should play the lotto too with that luck.
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That’s because, per Demers, neither her main chute nor her backup chute opened up. The woman landed in a cluster of trees, coming out of the plummet with multiple fractures, including broken vertebrae.
Nothing says luck like having your chute not deploy and render you likely paralyzed.
"But she survived!"
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:29 pm to ATrillionaire
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A 5000ft dive sounds both lame and dangerous. That's not high at all.
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A typical altitude might be around 13,000 feet (4,000 meters), which gives the jumper about 60 seconds of free fall -- the term used in skydiving to describe the moment the jumper exits the plane.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:30 pm to HempHead
If she was jumping alone she was most likely a licensed skydiver (not a student) and had her own parachute.
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.
Most skydivers pack their own main parachute but reserves are required to be packed by a certified rigger and repacked upon expiration. I can understand maybe the main didn't open but the reserve? Highly unlikely that it was pulled and did not open.
I would like to know more about her jump history (the article said she had jumped before) and what exactly happened between the time she exited the plane and the time she hit the ground.
This was also in Canada so maybe their rules and regulations are different up there.
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.
Most skydivers pack their own main parachute but reserves are required to be packed by a certified rigger and repacked upon expiration. I can understand maybe the main didn't open but the reserve? Highly unlikely that it was pulled and did not open.
I would like to know more about her jump history (the article said she had jumped before) and what exactly happened between the time she exited the plane and the time she hit the ground.
This was also in Canada so maybe their rules and regulations are different up there.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:30 pm to MrLarson
Thats taking the "mile high club" to extremes. She'll be on a short list.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:32 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
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Must of
Posted on 8/15/19 at 4:35 pm to MrLarson
quote:Well that fellow skydiver about to make her own jump is a master of understatement.
“We watched all the way to the end,” a fellow skydiver about to make her own jump says. “We were very worried. Very.”
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