Pregnant skydiver plunges 50mph face first and lives

[CAMAROBOY69]

15 steel plates later and yes she said she will jump again.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10348853/?GT1=7516

 

[turboash78]

I wanna see the video

 

[Duke]

Well, "natural selection" ain't perfect...

 

[Joey D]

Wow that couldn't have been good for her unborn kid.

I just pictures the video...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
woooossh
BOOM!

 

[RICHARDO]

Times like this I question the intelligence of the human race...

Oh and post the video.

 

[LoudMusic]

I hear that people bounce when they hit the ground.

 

[Iceman]

How do you survive a 50mph fall

 

[Gil]

Why did she not know what to do?
Also, don't skydivers pack their own chutes?
And she plans to do it again?
Hmm? Arkansas. Ah, that explains everything.

 

[Lee]

How do you survive a 50mph fall

By landing in a safety net... Duh

 

[Plague.Ghost]

I don't see how this makes her stupid or ignorant in any way. Her 'chute didn't open, and from the sounds of it she didn't even know she was prgnant. So what's the prob', gent's?

 

[VIPFREAK]

Yeah... it was funny to see the progression of the news as the day turned to night. In the beginning they were just shrugging it off like everything was ok and by the time it was night they had a vid and her interview.

She landed on pavement...

 

[Gil]

I don't see how this makes her stupid or ignorant in any way. Her 'chute didn't open, and from the sounds of it she didn't even know she was prgnant. So what's the prob', gent's?

She jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
She jumped with not one, but two improperly packed chutes. The odds of that happening are astronomical.
She plans to jump out of a perfectly good airplane again.

If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving isn't for you.

 

[VIPFREAK]

So are you saying Skydiving in general is pretty stupid and they should automatically die for doing something that stupid?

 

[Plague.Ghost]

She jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
She jumped with not one, but two improperly packed chutes. The odds of that happening are astronomical.
She plans to jump out of a perfectly good airplane again.

If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving isn't for you.

They skated on perfectly good ice, they shovelled perfectly good coal, they crashed perfectly good cars, THEY WROTE ON PERFECTLY GOOD PAPER.

Your argument is irrelevant. Someone else is flying the plane back anyway.

Do you know how to pack a parachute?

 

[Gil]

No, I don't know how to pack a parachute.
And I don't go jumping out of airplanes either.
I'm not saying it's a stupid hobby.
However, when I was three years old, I was running in the church auditorium after service, and managed to split open my head by running into the back of one of the chairs. I have since not run in church, and have, suprisingly, not split my head open again.

When the parachute was invented, it's original purpose was to allow a person to safely leave a plane that no longer had the ability to fly.

Then it became a way to ingress troops behind enemy lines (not too bright, as many men died due to ground fire, and being such easy targets).
How that translated into a "fun" past-time is a bit beyond my comprehension.

People have pretty much been very careful about ice skating on ponds after they learned that it was possible to fall thru the ice. (So it wasn't perfectly good).

People that mine coal do that work to make a living. they accept the dangers and do everything to keep it safe. At the first sign of danger all the miners come running out of the mines. Plus, they are trying to make a living, they aren't "playing".

When people crash cars, in the normal everyday life, it's usually because they tried to do something that was out of the realm of possibility. Or safety. Or because someone else was outside the realm of what a car can and will safely do. How many cars have you crashed driving along at the speed limit and obeying the traffic laws and paying attention to what is going on around you? I haven't crashed a single one in 26 years of driving. I have scraped one or two while I wasn't paying proper attention to my surroundings and attending fully to the operation of the vehicle.

My argument is quite relevant. Why jump out of an airplane that can take you safely back to the ground?
Sport? The Thrill? Not good enough for me. The parachute was originally designed to allow you to ditch a plane that is in imminent danger of crashing. It has evolved from a safety device to a "toy". Only, this toy can kill you due to any number of reasons/malfunctions.

 

[Gil]

So are you saying Skydiving in general is pretty stupid and they should automatically die for doing something that stupid?

That isn't exactly what I'm saying.
However, if we abolished warning labels, the collective IQ of the entire planet would go up about 15 points in the next 10 years.
The smart will join the strong.











i.e. "Only the strong survive"

 

[911_gt3_rs]

How do you survive a 50mph fall

Here are some tips. *Clicky*

 

[Raghavan]

Umm.... How is she stupid? She didn't know she was pregnant, and she didn't know that her chutes wouldn't open.
and Gil, i suppose that you don't ride a bike after you fell down for the first time.

 

[VIPFREAK]

When people crash cars, in the normal everyday life, it's usually because they tried to do something that was out of the realm of possibility. Or safety. Or because someone else was outside the realm of what a car can and will safely do. How many cars have you crashed driving along at the speed limit and obeying the traffic laws and paying attention to what is going on around you? I haven't crashed a single one in 26 years of driving. I have scraped one or two while I wasn't paying proper attention to my surroundings and attending fully to the operation of the vehicle.

My argument is quite relevant. Why jump out of an airplane that can take you safely back to the ground?
Sport? The Thrill? Not good enough for me. The parachute was originally designed to allow you to ditch a plane that is in imminent danger of crashing. It has evolved from a safety device to a "toy". Only, this toy can kill you due to any number of reasons/malfunctions.

So I'm assuming based on the above that you don't like or watch car racing?

Here are some tips. *Clicky*

"Unplanned FreeFall"

 

[Gil]

Umm.... How is she stupid? She didn't know she was pregnant, and she didn't know that her chutes wouldn't open.
and Gil, i suppose that you don't ride a bike after you fell down for the first time.

Bike=2 feet of the ground.
Airplane=10,000 feet of the ground.
Do the math.

If you bother to read the last few posts, you will note that I said:
If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving is not for you.
Did I mention bikes?
Now perhaps she didn't know she was pregnant. I never mentioned that at all.
I never said pregnancy equals stupidity. Go back and re-read for content.

I did mention the fact that both of her chutes didn't deploy properly. So there you were paying attention.
If you were lucky enough to live after such a thing, would you be in a hurry to do it again?

 

[Raghavan]

Bike=2 feet of the ground.
Airplane=10,000 feet of the ground.
Do the math.

If you bother to read the last few posts, you will note that I said:
If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving is not for you.
Did I mention bikes?
Now perhaps she didn't know she was pregnant. I never mentioned that at all.
I never said pregnancy equals stupidity. Go back and re-read for content.

I did mention the fact that both of her chutes didn't deploy properly. So there you were paying attention.
If you were lucky enough to live after such a thing, would you be in a hurry to do it again?

But you're saying that she shouldn't be doing it again, and that it's just stupid. So are you saying that if you get hurt doing something, then you should never try doing it again? That's where the bike example came in.
Besides, if i were in her place, i'd try it again. I"d want to actually do it properly to get a sense of pride.

 

[NISMOskyline]

Bike=2 feet of the ground.
Airplane=10,000 feet of the ground.
Do the math.

If you bother to read the last few posts, you will note that I said:
If at first you don't succeed, perhaps skydiving is not for you.
Did I mention bikes?
Now perhaps she didn't know she was pregnant. I never mentioned that at all.
I never said pregnancy equals stupidity. Go back and re-read for content.

I did mention the fact that both of her chutes didn't deploy properly. So there you were paying attention.
If you were lucky enough to live after such a thing, would you be in a hurry to do it again?

Exactly, I am really getting irritated with the fact that many people don't even read the entire post before replying.

Slow down, read the post, and please, PLEASE make an intelligent and rational reply.

And there is a BIG difference between falling off a bike and getting scraped up and smashing your body into concrete at 50+ mph.

 

[Raghavan]

Exactly, I am really getting irritated with the fact that many people don't even read the entire post before replying.

Slow down, read the post, and please, PLEASE make an intelligent and rational reply.

And there is a BIG difference between falling off a bike and getting scraped up and smashing your body into concrete at 50+ mph.

You mean you've never split your head from falling off a bike? Or you've never broken a leg or arm or anything?

 

[Vonie]

How do you survive a 50mph fall

Surviving the fall is easy...it's the landing that hurts.

 

[Gil]

Okay, at the risk of being Capt. Obvious:
When you jump out of plane 10,000 feet off the ground, you are HOPING that everything works out the way you planned. IF it does you get to live. If it doesn't you get squished.

All of the above mentioned issues with cars, bikes, skates, etc. are ACCIDENTS.
You don't drive your car into a building at 50 MPH on purpose do you?

Yet, for fun you want jump out of a plane where you can reach a terminal velocity of 120MPH.
Cars at least have seat belts and airbags for if you do decide to run into a building at 50 MPH.

Even in car and motorcycle racing most ACCIDENTS are survivable.
In Skydiving, an ACCIDENT/Equipment malfunction is pretty much the end of your day...forever.
Survival in these situations is the exception, not the rule.
Newsflash: God doesn't work for Mercedes-Benz, and you don't have airbags.

I never said that I didn't run again after I split my head open. I said, "I didn't run in church anymore".
There is a big difference in getting back on the horse, and plunging 10,000 feet just to prove you can do it.
Have you never heard that "Pride goes before a fall"?

There are plenty of things that I would indeed do to get past the fear. But as jumping out of airplanes is not one of my daily "activies of daily living", I see no point in doing it just to prove that I can.

There is an old story about beheading that stated that if you could pull your head out of the guillotine, after the blade was tripped, and run the 1/4 mile into town, you were set free. Legend has it that one guy managed to do it. Later, he was telling his friends about it and they didn't believe him. So, he tried to do it again, to prove that he could...He ended up with his head in the basket. Probably a somber time at the bar that nite.
Legend of course, but it illustrates my point.

 

[Raghavan]

Whatever. I don't think she's crazy at all. Hell, I'd love to skydive right now.

 

[Plague.Ghost]

Only, this toy can kill you due to any number of reasons/malfunctions.

As can a car, bicycle, ice skating, deer hunting, paragliding, parachuting. . .

All of the above mentioned issues with cars, bikes, skates, etc. are ACCIDENTS.
You don't drive your car into a building at 50 MPH on purpose do you?

You don't pack non-working parachutes...DO YOU? You don't count on them not deploying, DO YOU? You don't jump out of a plane with 0 precautions, DO YOU?

Yet, for fun you want jump out of a plane where you can reach a terminal velocity of 120MPH.
Cars at least have seat belts and airbags for if you do decide to run into a building at 50 MPH.

There's also about 10,000,000x more cars on the road than there are people falling out of the sky. A lot more time and preparation goes into jumping out of a plane than driving to work.

There are plenty of things that I would indeed do to get past the fear. But as jumping out of airplanes is not one of my daily "activies of daily living", I see no point in doing it just to prove that I can.

...do people throw darts, race cars, play hockey, ride a bicycle, or play computer games to prove they can? No, they do it because it's what they think is fun. Besides, some people are genetically oriented to do risky things.

 

[Omnis]

Gil, you ol' codger. Just be glad it wasn't one of us who fell. I'd imagine myself being solely responsible for tickling the richter.

 

[194GVan]

haha skydivers are a little crazy to begin with (based on the few I know)

and yes, skydivers are responsible for ensuring the chutes they use are in good working order and they do pack them themselves. for this lady's sake I hope she gets at least one of them working properly next time. Its not like you're going to survive falls like that over and over.

 

[Ev0]

Good thing the fetus was early in development when the fall happened. Otherwise the g-forces involved in the fall would have messed a lot of stuff up.