Posted on 11/12/2009 8:43:39 AM PST by Chet 99
Yes... I’m also glad you weren’t there.
Sorry for your loss. What a sad thing for a vibrant individual to lose their life like that.
Thanks for the mention.
I made four or five jumps, too. My skydiving career ended when, as I was getting ready to go one Sunday morning, CNN had a beautiful video of three professional skydivers falling to their deaths while performing a stunt. I decided I would find something else to do that day.
I don’t think the writer wanted to be accused of jumping to a conclusion.
Or common sense.
USA Southern California Riverside County.
Area used to be nice ranches, mostly horses. All breeds, but lots of thorobreds.
Got ‘developed’ starting around 1986, and beautiful land got totally carpeted with sub-divisions. By 1989, it was an onslaught.
Rode a couple of days up on Santa Rosa Mesa near there and it was beautiful. Cannot even find the trails I rode anymore.
All of this was once very large Spanish Land Grants, from the very earliest explorers. A couple of the California Missions are near there.
Blue Skies....Black Death
Prayers for the family.
How perceptive of you! In my day, we would have put our money on a "Mae West".
Airborne training at Fort Benning takes 3 weeks. On Friday of the second week, they illustrate the various things that can go wrong with a parachute. It's not pretty, but it's good prep for Jump Week.
I'm what's known as a "cherry jumper". I did my five jumps to earn my wings at Jump School at Fort Benning, and haven't jumped since.
No doubt, it was great training. I don't remember much from those five jumps, as we jumped at 1200 feet, and I was constantly looking around to make sure that no one was on top of my chute.
My most vivid memories are walking off the drop zone under my own power, and pinning on the wings.
RIP.
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