Caught on landing gear

[skybum1 0]

Anyone know anything about this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23435722/?pg=5#DTL_10Scariest_Main

[skyjumpsteve 0]

It looks like there is a video too with this link:

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/63482/detail.html

[skybum1 0]

Thanks,

That's just what I was looking for.

"Remember to be nice to people on your way up cause you meet them on your way down." Jimmy D.

[sraja 0]

I saw this on NBC Morning show Friday 2/29/08 and heard the hostess mention something to the effect of "this is why I would never skydive!!".

[futuredivot 0]

It's not that tough to do if you're sliding around on the step. I've hung under a 182 once, luckily just for a few seconds until my bootie tore, but it was a sick feeling. I'm a firm believer in keeping a big, sharp knife on the plane

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[ltdiver 3]

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I saw this on NBC Morning show Friday 2/29/08 and heard the hostess mention something to the effect of "this is why I would never skydive!!".

NBC has been showing teasers all week long about their "10 Scariest Escapes from Death" program at 7pm PST tonight. It's supposed to include this story. Sorry for the other time zones...If you didn't tune in already you missed it.

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[DaleH 0]

I knew the tail number looked familiar, this plane is at my Home DZ. It is also equip with a very large Hook Knife ;).

-Dale

[ryan_d_sucks 0]

Anyone know if the jumper was equipped with a hook knife? I wonder how that happened, it doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to get yourself unhooked, especially if you had a hook-knife to hack at it with.

And, am I understanding this correctly-- the plane landed with him attached to it without killing him? How is that even possible?

[NWFlyer 2]

I thought this video sounded familiar - there was a Discovery Channel show a couple years ago (discussed here) where they recreated the incident and tried to figure out if the pilot had other viable options than the one taken (which, IIRC, involved landing as softly, and slowly, as possible onto very soft ground).

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[ltdiver 3]

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I wonder how that happened, it doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to get yourself unhooked

Don't know if this is what happened to this particular jumper, but there have been other stories of skydivers getting their RW suit booties hooked on a C-182 step. Once the bootie is hooked it's pretty difficult to undo when you've got a force of around 80+ securing it there.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[riggerrob 643]

This has happened many times before.

Back when DC-3s were fashionable (i.e. before booties were invented), a skydiver caught the leg of his jumpsuit on the door of a DC-3 and got dragged down the runway on landing. His rig got shredded, but he survived with neglible injuries.

More than a decade ago, Norwegian pilot Pol (??? he was head of the UPC for a few years) suffered a similar incident, so he landed his Cessna 207 on grass and the skydiver suffered only minor scrapes. The pilot got a medal for that.

Why - just last summer - I was rehearsing exits from a Cessna when my bootie caught on the step. I crashed on the taxiway, but the student continued rehearsing the dive flow with the other instructor.

[popsjumper 2]

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...Why - just last summer - I was rehearsing exits from a Cessna when my bootie caught on the step. I crashed on the taxiway, but the student continued rehearsing the dive flow with the other instructor.

A student with FOCUS!
I like that!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[skypuppy 1]

Back in the 90's Jo Stanley got his bootie caught on an exit at Skydive Toronto during a 4-way meet. The pilot closed the door and had descended to about 600 feet before they got a hold of him and told him to start climbing again. Jo got loose at about 800 feet and opened his reserve, landing behind a farm not too far away. He was just relaxing, sitting on the back porch having a glass of water with the farmer when he heard a big noise out front of the house. It turns out another jumper had jumped in thinking Jo was hurt, did a panic turn when he saw hydro wires, and screwed himself into the road.

Jo said at least when he rolled him over, he had a first aid kit on the chest strap!

When the ambulance arrived they kept asking if this was the guy that hung up on the plane. Jo said "no, That's me. This guy jumped in to save me!"

The dzo said he couldn't believe it when, a few minutes after he got back to the dz, Jo had borrowed a rig and was going up for his rejump using the same exit.

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone