View Full Version : One jump, multiple landings.
I almost put this in the comedy zone. I can honestly say I've never seen anything like it.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b1_1348431225
Paragrouper
09-23-2012, 18:09
That absolutely had to hurt.
That had to hurt and I bet he wished he had a knife or quick disconnect to cut away. Wonder how long that kept up.....
MK262MOD1
09-23-2012, 18:36
Dust devils are a MFer.
He should have cutaway.
Team Sergeant
09-23-2012, 19:57
Dust devils are a MFer.
He should have cutaway.
Cut away or grab one riser and pull it in. That was very bad training caught on tape.
I enjoyed the one guy just standing there as he was being trashed!
The German chutes have arctic covers over the canopy release assemblies. Little tricky trying to pull one quickly when needed. I'm sure the Russians are the same.
Latvia issues a large dull butter knife to cut your main, and then pull your reserve.
Have made multiple PLFs on a couple of jumps... nothing like landing with the wind with an MC4, pulling your brakes, and realizing that nothing happened and you're going about 30 knots. Railroad tracks hurt when you hit them on PLF#9 of 20.
We seized Roosevelt Roads during Ocean Venture 1990. As we exited the planes at 0100, they shut the lights off on the airfield. So in addition to the 26 knot wind, we're all night blind and just crashing into and onto everything. Including a few landings on top of C-130s, guys getting drug face down on the runway (unable to get to his canopy release), and about 100 injuries in the Bn. Luckily I got tangled up in the Airfield Code Letter on the lead edge, and able to get free of my parachute. But we still put on the show for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was there to see us conduct the mission.
Thank God for barbed wire. That's all I'm going to say.
KimuraFTW
09-24-2012, 00:25
Wow....the crazy part is the video seemed to end before it was even over...
Dozer523
09-24-2012, 04:26
After 1:47 I think he was unconcious.
MK262MOD1
09-24-2012, 05:42
I am sure you are right. He is out.
I had a one jump two landing after hitting the rolling, undulating terrain on Salerno, DZ under a T10. It was like being pulled off a cliff. Truly it was a small 10 foot hill and high winds like this.
Round or square wind starts yanking me and I've got a toggle or riser in....bye chute.
Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmBJONo5_E
scroll to 44:32