Skydiving anyone?

[onekgguy]

watch this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=)

i wonder if he jumps again someday?

Kevin

[Kevin]

As you can see, he hit the ground hard.



Kevin

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . you did any skydiving. ;)

Kevin, we really must talk. You are down to recycling pics! :crap:

BBD

[Kevin]

BBD,

I have only done it once. I hit the ground pretty hard. :crap:

Kevin

[Archibald]

watch this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=)

i wonder if he jumps again someday?

Kevin
Been there, done that.

[ejh]

I was up in a hot air balloon today for about an hour. Was a great ride. Eric

[fiamme red]

A co-worker of mine died in a skydiving accident in September.

http://1010wins.com/pages/80825.php?contentType=4&contentId=202708

[Kevan]

he broke his leg, a couple ribs and punctured a lung. The guy was better than lucky. He was damn lucky.

[Archibald]

When it comes to jumping out of airplanes, I've seen some whacked out sheet. Saw a guy free fall 1200 feet, hit the ground, and walk away with no serious damage. Saw an O-5 with over 300 jumps make his retirement jump with his unit from 800 feet. Total malfunction, augered in at TV and that was the end of him. I myself had a partial malfunction losing about 1/2 my canopy at about 800-feet and augered in with high ground winds just as I was pulling my reserve. Broke my back and didn't even know it. Getting drug across the DZ while I was semi-conscious did more damage than the impact and I could of walked away if they hadn't strapped me to a board. :)

Years later I was at the South Pole when a civilian group (including a guy I used to work with) of 6 were going to be the first to skydive there. 3 of them weren't using AADs, lost their horizon, and never even attempted to open their chutes. They went about 3 feet into the snow and the snow there is like ice.

You make a habit of exiting an aircraft at altitude and you have to expect some bad sheet is going to happen sooner or later.

Danger, Will Robinson!

[gdw]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,922840,00.html
20 percent of the platoon injured on the jump and then it rained and snowed after the winds died down.

[Elefantino]

I give up skydiving for Lent every year.

[soulspinner]

Jump out of an airplane and call it an accidental death?

[Archibald]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,922840,00.html
20 percent of the platoon injured on the jump and then it rained and snowed after the winds died down.It's dangerous even before you get on the bird. Did you hear about what happened on green ramp at Pope in '93 or 94? Fighter plane midairs with a C-130 and then the fighter hit the deck and crashed into a 141 where troops on green ramp were loading the aircraft. Killed 20+ troops & injured scores more.

[gdw]

Yes. March of 94. 24 dead and over 80 injured. Sad.