Posted on 05/03/2012 10:47:08 AM PDT by PilotDave
A 27-year old woman on her first hang gliding trip died after slipping out of her harness shortly after takeoff from Woodside Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Lenami Godinez reportedly fell 1,000 feet after desperately trying to hang on to the instructor’s feet. Miss Godinez and her boyfriend had hired a professional instructor to take them soaring on Saturday.
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I recommend turning so you look up, and pondering whether that cloud more closely resembles a sheep or a horse.
“”does anyone know if people black out under such circumstances, or what other perceptions they feel?””
Come on! They would have to come back from the dead to tell you! Has there ever been someone that has come back to life from falling to their death? Not that I know of.
That’s basically what they’re doing.
He’s been charged with obstruction of a police investigation, and is currently in lock-up.
Try tillamookheadlightherald.com
I don’t normally read it but I’ll take a look. Thanks!
One question that does come to mind is this. Why did he where a birdman/squirrel skydiving suit for a jump that was only 1500 feet above the ground? I guess if he wanted only a three to five second free fall then more power to him.
It's a tough question to answer because you have no one who has ever survived the ultimate death that can answer it.
I have my own thoughts tho, I believe the body and brain go beyond the immediate fear and knowledge of the impending death and enter into a non feeling stasis where the brain immediately shuts everything down in preparation of the coming trauma which will liklely result in death.
I'm not arguing anything, I'm just offering an opinion so keep the flames away from me.......
And yet they survived the accident.......
“Has there ever been someone that has come back to life from falling to their death? Not that I know of.”
I don’t know about that, but there have been several people who have survived a freefall to earth from thousands of feet without a parachute. It’s extremely rare, but it has happened.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fall_survivors
I think they were practicing for display at a gathering of ultralights at Cannon Beach, OR
Actually, I thought I read once where a skydiver landed in a bog, or one the side of a hill, and survived. Naturally, they didn’t get into the emotions on the way down.
You make some great points, and I think they sound reasonable.
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