I survived my skydiving jump with only minor bruising on my inner thigh so you won't be rid of me that easily.
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highland145
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GagHalfrunt
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I think the problem was that too many of you tried different ways to get rid of me and they ended up interfering with eachother
:hmm: I thought the rip cord was a bit low on the equipment when he told me to 'give it a yank'
:hmm: I thought the rip cord was a bit low on the equipment when he told me to 'give it a yank'
Rakehellion
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No, I don't think OP did but this guy did when he realized he jumped and made a fatal mistake, that being HE FORGOT TO PUT ON HIS 'CHUTTE at all, here's the video of a tragic death..http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=184_1213130246
sandorski
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Yeah that is fake, and all it took was a misleading title. Pretty sure that the camera was dropped after the chute was deployed, as evidenced by the quick spinning shortly after you hear the chute deploy. Do you really think a person would go into a spin like that so quickly, regardless if they had a chute or not? A small camera, sure, but not a large person.
Sure did! I've done it before and its quite the experience. The parachute deploying hurt just as badly as I remembered too. The weather was perfect and got to do quite a few tight spins on the way down
Nice try trying to play it off like you weren't one of the ones involved in nefarious plotting but I'm on to you
Yea, that vid is not the one that happened in 1988 when an experienced skydiver did indeed jump and forgot his 'chutte. I had the original clip shown on CNN on a VHS tape and the video I linked to is not it. The real one he jumps, then points his helmet-mounted camera back at the plane to capture the others jumping then later realizes he forgot his own 'chutte, I can't find the vid anywhere and my VHS player is long gone LOL but here is the story,
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LOUISBURG, NC An experienced parachutist filmed his own two-mile death plunge after he fell from an airplane while carrying a video camera but apparently without realizing he had no parachute, investigators said Tuesday.
Officials declared the death Saturday of Ivan Lester McGuire, 35, of Durham, an accident.
Franklin County sheriff's Capt. Ralph Brown said there was no foul play and no indication of suicide, although "a man who has jumped 800 times ought to remember his parachute." "A man who has jumped 800 times ought to remember his parachute."
The videotape shows McGuire leaving the plane, apparently without problems, Brown said. Other parachutists then jump and free fall, but disappear when they pop their parachutes and McGuire plunges on toward the ground at 150 mph.
McGuire, who was carrying a video camera mounted on his helmet, was filming a student and an instructor at Franklin County Sports Parachute Center about 20 miles from Raleigh.
The plane's pilot, Mark Luman, couldn't be found for comment and had no telephone listing. Brown said the pilot "wasn't in any position to see what happened in the back of the plane."
The videotape showed the divers making preparations around the plane's door; then the camera went out with McGuire.
With the camera aimed up toward the plane, the tape then shows the instructor and the student jump and freefall somewhat above McGuire. The jump appeared to be proceeding normally until the instructor and student opened their parachutes and receded rapidly from view as McGuire hurtled below them.
"The pictures get to moving real fast because he's approaching the ground at 150 mph" "It kind of appears he reached for his parachute and didn't have one," Brown said. "But the release for his (McGuire's) parachute is on his right hip, and when that right hand goes down, the left hand comes forward and it comes into camera view."
After several seconds of jerky motion, the tape shows the ground approaching. "Then the pictures get to moving real fast because he's approaching the ground at 150 mph," Brown said.
McGuire's body was found in woods about 11/2 miles from the airfield. Footage of the final stage of the plunge was destroyed on impact and what tape remained had to be spliced in places, officials said.
Brown said blood samples will show whether McGuire had alcohol or drugs in his system and test results should be ready in about a week.
Although an expert jumper, McGuire could have forgotten to put on his parachute because of fatigue or preoccupation with his video equipment, Mrs. Fayard was quoted as saying.
A Federal Aviation Administration investigator said Monday he was checking to see if the pilot knew whether McGuire was wearing a parachute when he entered the airplane, as FAA regulations require.
Sheriff Arthur Johnson said Tuesday the investigation showed the pilot thought McGuire was wearing a parachute. But Walter L. Riggsbee, the FAA investigator, said the video equipment may have been mistaken for a parachute."
Thank you for the follow-up. I was not trying to imply this story was impossible, just that the particular vid in question was obviously fake.
I was only 6 years old in '88, and am not invested enough to scoop this story. I have met a multitude of people that lack enough intelligence to jump out of an airplane before checking if they have a parachute, so there is no flaw in your story there. These people might also confuse the words to, and too.
I enjoyed living in NC and Georgia, and while I feel bad for the guy's death, at the same time, were I on the other end, would have realized I needed to die.
What evidently happened was, he made a living by filming people's first solo jump's, often jumping several times a day, in 1988 VHS camcorders were fairly bulky affairs, his was mounted on his back with a camera on his helmet feeding in the video, apparently the bulk of the recorder made him think his 'chutte was on when in fact he had forgot to strap it on..
alkemyst
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That's cool. Now that Alky is here, I forget any reason to try to make this a serious thread. Even though he is the expert Floridian on snow removal.
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