Woman has skydiving accident. Lands face first in parking lot at 50mph

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SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. - Shayna Richardson was making her first solo skydiving jump when she had trouble with her parachutes and, while falling at about 50 mph, hit face first in a parking lot. Although badly hurt, she survived _ and doctors treating her injuries discovered she was pregnant. Four surgeries and two months later, Richardson said she and the fetus are doing fine.

"Just this last week we went and saw the doctor and we've got arms, we've got legs. We've got a full face. The baby is moving around just fine. The heart rate looks good. So not only did God save me but he spared this baby," she said.

Richardson, 21, of Joplin, Mo., was skydiving in Siloam Springs on Oct. 9 when her main parachute failed.

"I heard a snap and I started spinning and I didn't know why. I didn't know what to do to fix it. I didn't know how to make it stop," Richardson told Fort Smith, Ark., television station KFSM.

She cut away her primary chute so her reserve could deploy, but it didn't open all the way. She spun out of control, heading straight for the asphalt below.

"At the end I said, 'I'm going to die. I'm going to hit the ground. I'm going to die,'" she said. "I don't remember it. I don't remember hitting the ground. I don't remember the impact or anything that came with it."

Rescuers got her to a hospital in Fayetteville, where Richardson underwent surgery. She broke her pelvis in two places, broke her leg, lost six teeth and now has 15 steel plates.

"I went into the first surgery where they cut me from ear to ear and they cut my face down and they took out all the fractured egg-shelled bones and put in steel plates," Richardson said.

During treatment, doctors found that Richardson was pregnant, which was a surprise to her. She said she would not have jumped had she known.

"To hit the ground belly first _ that's dangerous. I mean at any stage of pregnancy that's dangerous. That's not something you want to do let alone at 50 miles per hour," Richardson said.

Her fall was videotaped and Richardson said she was able to watch it, without qualms.

"I wanted to watch it," said Richardson. "And the whole reason I'm comfortable with watching it because I know how it ends."

Richardson said her due date is June 25. She plans to make her next parachute jump in August.
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meltdown75

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now that's what i call a saving face

holy sh1t how does one survive such a wicked faceplant?!
 
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Daaaaang. :Q:Q

Kinda veering off subject, but have any of you seen the original King Kong? I just barely did on Saturday and noticed that some of the characters take some NASTY falls. It was pretty shocking, especially for a 1933 production.
 
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Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Daaaaang. :Q:Q

Kinda veering off subject, but have any of you seen the original King Kong? I just barely did on Saturday and noticed that some of the characters take some NASTY falls. It was pretty shocking, especially for a 1933 production.
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Not really. They didn't have nearly the safety setups and concerns back then that we have now.
 
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shens...no way she hit the ground anywhere near 50 mph. we have all seen what happens to a car that hits a concrete wall at 50 mph.
 
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Reminds me of this:

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Since I don't have any credible sources of what happened next, I'm going to go off of the next best thing: hearsay and rumor. After he cut off his arm, he jumped off the cliff and broke his fall with his face, just because he's that tough.
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Courtesy of Maddox
 
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Originally posted by: captains
saw her on the news this morning.....OMG FUGLY
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You would be too if your face hit pavement at 50mph.
 
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Originally posted by: alien42
shens...no way she hit the ground anywhere near 50 mph. we have all seen what happens to a car that hits a concrete wall at 50 mph.
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I agree, if she landed directly on her face first w/ no other part of her body hitting the ground , then she'd be dead without a doubt.

It was probably that she landed w/ her face hitting the ground but also the rest of her body hitting the ground as well absorbing most of the impact.

But the title leads you to think she was like perfectly straight/vertical when hitting the ground.
 
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Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Originally posted by: alien42
shens...no way she hit the ground anywhere near 50 mph. we have all seen what happens to a car that hits a concrete wall at 50 mph.
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I agree, if she landed directly on her face first w/ no other part of her body hitting the ground , then she'd be dead without a doubt.

It was probably that she landed w/ her face hitting the ground but also the rest of her body hitting the ground as well absorbing most of the impact.

But the title leads you to think she was like perfectly straight/vertical when hitting the ground.
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I dont think they make it sound like that.... they never said she went down head first, it clearly sounds to me like she basically did a belly flop :)
 
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I think I heard the other day the human body can survive forces up to 25x gravity. At her speed, (22m/s) if the collision took place uniformly over a tenth of a second that would have been exactly the 25x gravity force.
 
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BigJ

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That baby must be fvcking Superman to survive that impact. She better not even think about having an abortion. Aborting Superman is borderline blasphemous.
 
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I have to ask about her ability to go sky diving though! It says in the article "I heard a snap and I started spinning and I didn't know why. I didn't know what to do to fix it. I didn't know how to make it stop," Well anybody that has ever been skydiving knows exactly what to do, you cut away then pull your reserve, they drill it into you soooo much!

Added to that i very much doubt she face planted, she said that her reserve partly deployed and that would have created enough drag to put her feet first. I expect she did get a serious headache though!

Edit: SHould have read where she was from first, i guess that explains some of the dumbness
 
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Originally posted by: aiex
I have to ask about her ability to go sky diving though! It says in the article "I heard a snap and I started spinning and I didn't know why. I didn't know what to do to fix it. I didn't know how to make it stop," Well anybody that has ever been skydiving knows exactly what to do, you cut away then pull your reserve, they drill it into you soooo much!

Added to that i very much doubt she face planted, she said that her reserve partly deployed and that would have created enough drag to put her feet first. I expect she did get a serious headache though!

Edit: SHould have read where she was from first, i guess that explains some of the dumbness
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I think this was either poorly writen, a misquote, or her just not explaining well... because right after that they say....

She cut away her primary chute so her reserve could deploy, but it didn't open all the way. She spun out of control, heading straight for the asphalt below.
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Edit: Bah now I see you saw the part where she said she did thoose things...
 
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Originally posted by: speg
I think I heard the other day the human body can survive forces up to 25x gravity. At her speed, (22m/s) if the collision took place uniformly over a tenth of a second that would have been exactly the 25x gravity force.
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Your aorta ruptures at about 30 G's
 
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