peacefuljeffrey 0 #1 August 23, 2004 Woman survives double mal! Crazy, but it's great that she made it! Blue skies, --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cvfd1399 0 #2 August 23, 2004 Sweet! That makes 2 that I know of that lived. I wish all double mals would come out like that or better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pia 0 #3 August 23, 2004 Yeah.. I spoke to her last night. She is a little sore, but other than a hairline fracture to her pelvis and a few bruises she is fine All I can say is WE LOVE YOU PUNKIN Your guarding angels need a well deserved vacation Thinking of you and wish you a restful and speedy recovery **Those who refuse to live and learn simply exist** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #4 August 23, 2004 Guess that solves the debate then... when you have a double mal - try to make it to the power lines. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamjenner 0 #5 August 23, 2004 QuoteGuess that solves the debate then... when you have a double mal - try to make it to the power lines. and i was always taught to stay away from them well at least she's fine and everything's okay!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pia 0 #6 August 23, 2004 She'll be out of hospital tomorrow **Those who refuse to live and learn simply exist** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #7 August 23, 2004 I walked in the door today and two coworkers met me at my desk and said "Did you hear about that girl in Afica whose parachute didn't open and she lived because she hit powerlines?! It was all over CNN so it had to be true!" No joke, just happened about 30 minutes ago._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #8 August 23, 2004 Wow....that's the second person I have seen be saved major injury by power lines. First was a main/reserve entanglement at Raeford. Crazy isn't it? Glad she was relatively unscathed. 8 lives left I suppose. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dixieskydiver 0 #9 August 23, 2004 QuoteGuess that solves the debate then... when you have a double mal - try to make it to the power lines. First rule about landing in power lines: "DON'T LAND IN POWER LINES!" I guess there needs to be a caveat about double mals... but I don't think I'll tell my students that. Dixie HISPA #56 Facil Rodriguez "Scientific research has shown that 60% of the time, it works every time." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quatorze 1 #10 August 23, 2004 QuoteQuoteGuess that solves the debate then... when you have a double mal - try to make it to the power lines. First rule about landing in power lines: "DON'T LAND IN POWER LINES!" I guess there needs to be a caveat about double mals... but I don't think I'll tell my students that. Kind of like this mal And by the by I gonna have to say there is a horse shove shoved somewhere I'm not afriad of dying, I'm afraid of never really living- Erin Engle Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DontPanic 0 #11 August 23, 2004 QuoteI walked in the door today and two coworkers met me at my desk and said "Did you hear about that girl in Afica whose parachute didn't open and she lived because she hit powerlines?! It was all over CNN so it had to be true!" Similar response at my office. Given all the strange and fascinating skydiving stories I've read about in these forums, I'm alittle mystified how CNN picked this one out as worthy of worldwide attention. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #12 August 23, 2004 which lines broke on her reserve that caused it "not to fully open"? all i can imagine is that all the lines on one side of the canopy ripped, so it was only half a wing? MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pia 0 #13 August 23, 2004 Not sure, here is the thread in incidents.. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=1210759;page=1;mh=-1;;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC**Those who refuse to live and learn simply exist** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDivaChristie 0 #14 September 13, 2004 Quotewhich lines broke on her reserve that caused it "not to fully open"? all i can imagine is that all the lines on one side of the canopy ripped, so it was only half a wing? I have just seen this thread now, and would like to correct what has been sensationalised by a lot of papers. I had a fully deployed reserve above my head. The reserve lines were severely twisted and a number of the lines were severed (due to friction burns - this is under investigation and I'm not willing to speculate what caused this). The lines that were severed were held in place by the line twists. So I had a full wing above my head. (I assume that, had the lines not been so severely twisted, and the severed lines were loose, I would not have had a full wing above my head.) The parachute was spiralling and I could not control it. I hit a power line and then the ground. I was walking the next day, and went back to work a week ago. Thanks to everyone who has sent well-wishes, and especially to everyone at JSC - you're an awesome bunch of people! not jumping sux Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erroll 80 #15 September 13, 2004 QuoteWow....that's the second person I have seen be saved major injury by power lines. First was a main/reserve entanglement at Raeford. Crazy isn't it? Glad she was relatively unscathed. 8 lives left I suppose. I seem to recall another South African (Chris?) who had a double mal in the early 90's, near Wonderboom. He had material above his head but nothing inflated. The washing above his head got snared by the power lines, saving him from impact. He hung there, suspended from the power lines, until something burnt through and he fell to the ground. Perhaps Tonto can confirm (or dispell) the incident. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #16 September 13, 2004 It's true, but it wasn't a double mal. It was a 4 way rotation wrap that went very wrong. He passed between the powerlines under a spinning mess. The wrap pulled them together and shorted them out, and he dropped into the road with his head on the curb, still wrapped. Chris (Flint) was the guy involved, and Andre Le Roux and Cameron Condie were other team members. Chris's only injury was to his right thumb, which was badly cut when his little plastic orange "zak" knife broke in use. Lesson here is if you're in so much shit you need a hook knife to save you, carry one which stands a good chance of working when you need it. If you have a "zak" knife, give it to someone you really don't like. tIt's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrelr 0 #17 February 21, 2005 Just picked up on this one. It was the most bizarre of incidents: as Tonto said, Chris landed horizontally with his head against a curbstone, on tar, so softly that he wasn't even winded. The curbstone (angled one) looked like a head cushion, if you can believe that! I landed and ran to him expecting a very dead teammate and he's hardly bruised (except for that wicked-looking cut on the thumb). I tell that story in a pub these days and no-one believes me... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #18 February 23, 2005 Hey Andre! Who was the other dude on the team then? The one I ended up replacing? Are you still in touch with Chris? tIt's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrelr 0 #19 February 24, 2005 Hi Tonto It was actually a 5-way at that time: Paul Labuschagne was pilot, I was pin, Cameron 3 and Chris alternated 4 with Fionn Williamson. Whoever was out of the stack on that jump was Camera. Fionn filmed that incident, but my copy was overwritten. Amazing footage with Fionn catching everthing, then spiralling madly after Chris who got smaller and smaller until there was this flash of light as he went through the power lines. You actually replaced 2 guys: Paul and Fionn both dropped out after China. Chris wore a tertiary reserve for a year or two after this. Cheers A Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
