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Texas teen in good condition after plummeting over 3,000 feet in skydiving accident
APviaFOX ^ | 01/28/14 | AP via FOX

Posted on 01/28/2014 9:20:39 PM PST by Doogle

A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday.

Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wethington when she was flown Saturday from a skydiving school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.

"I don't know the particulars of the accident as I wasn't there. But if she truly fell 3,000 feet, I have no idea how she survived," Bender said at a news conference at the hospital, where the girl's parents also spoke to reporters.

Not only did she survive, but she was in good condition Tuesday, Bender said, and was expected to leave the intensive care unit. Still, she has a long recovery ahead. Bender said it will be several weeks before she can bear any weight.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Outdoors; Religion
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1 posted on 01/28/2014 9:20:40 PM PST by Doogle
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To: Chode

ping


2 posted on 01/28/2014 9:21:56 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Good for the girl. It’s a shame she has an idiot for a father.


3 posted on 01/28/2014 9:26:25 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Doogle

Does this qualify as a miracle?


4 posted on 01/28/2014 9:26:53 PM PST by stevem
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To: stevem

I’m sure she thinks so.


5 posted on 01/28/2014 9:27:56 PM PST by doc1019
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To: stevem

.....always said, “if I was meant to fly, I’d spend time sitting on a branch and sh**ing through feathers”


6 posted on 01/28/2014 9:29:54 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: JimSEA

He’s setting up for the payday.

“”I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.””


7 posted on 01/28/2014 9:30:24 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: Doogle

8 posted on 01/28/2014 9:31:16 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Doogle

“, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.”

good condition can be a relative term


9 posted on 01/28/2014 9:31:41 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

“I’m suing! Somebody should have stopped me!!!”

lol


10 posted on 01/28/2014 9:32:53 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Pathetic.


11 posted on 01/28/2014 9:36:37 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Doogle

Life is too precious to risk it for frivolous reasons. Life and limb should only be put on the line when faced with extreme circumstances such as saving a life or defending freedom!


12 posted on 01/28/2014 9:39:45 PM PST by Teflonic
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She’s from Texas, but was too young to jump there, so she and her father drove to OK. They took a six hour basic parachuting class (static line). Because of the load balance being what it was... the father was asked to jump first. He did. The daughter jumped next. Apparently, a third jumper refused to jump. There was a jumpmaster, that was obligated to ride back down with the no go jumper. He did.

The injured jumper had a partial malfunction of some kind. The report I heard said she was spinning and couldn’t cut away. I don’t know why or if she even tried. Perhaps she was wrapped up in the canopy or had something close to a horseshoe malfunction where part of the canopy was open and part of it was somehow still attached to her body, or the suspension lines were attached to her body in such a way as to not allow the canopy to open properly.

She impacted the ground and lived. Often in a case where the jumper lives, several factors come into play- like, landing in grass or a plowed field, enough of an open canopy to slow the fall rate to a survivable speed, landing in such a way so that the body distributes the force across the entire body or most of the body, resilient spirit, quick medical treatment, etc. She’s very lucky. The parents were already talking about suing the facility.


13 posted on 01/28/2014 9:47:24 PM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

An amazing quote in my opinion. Absolutely mind-boggling!


14 posted on 01/28/2014 9:47:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
this "shouldn't have been allowed" is just the lamest excuse...the father and the mother both knew what the jump was....they knew the dangers...they allowed and enabled their dtr to try it....

something went wrong....it happens.....

but now in retrospect, he thinks it was a bad idea for that dang skyjumping school to come drag their dtr out of the house and FORCE her to jump from a plane...../sarcasm/

15 posted on 01/28/2014 9:50:02 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: JimSEA
I agree, only I think the father is looking for a major payday.

It's obvious that the parents are to blame as they have the last say as to what their children can & can't do, unless of course it is abortion I guess.

Here is what the father said for those that didn't read the article.

"I don't think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn't have been allowed," Joe Wethington said at the news conference. "I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don't think it's through the state of Oklahoma. I think it's the company. I'm not sure."

16 posted on 01/28/2014 10:00:42 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Damn fool. Jury trial in chickasha. Looser pays all. School should take that bet.

A nation of idiots.


17 posted on 01/28/2014 10:01:15 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

He’s setting up for the payday.

“”I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.””


What kind of idiotic parent allows this?? He is much more responsible for this than the company. The company wouldn’t have entered into it if the father had been a real parent and just said no.

You are right - ready to sue.


18 posted on 01/28/2014 10:03:40 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: leapfrog0202

I don’t think he is idiotic for allowing it. I’m glad my dad allowed me and my brothers to race moto-x when we were kids. But sometimes things go wrong and it is not anyone’s fault. This guy is sue happy and wants to stop everybody else from ever experiencing anything that might hurt their kid.


19 posted on 01/28/2014 10:12:00 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: Teflonic

Parachuting is fun, and good for the attitude.


20 posted on 01/28/2014 10:12:11 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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