Posted on 04/16/2022 1:25:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Jordan Hatmaker was skydiving in November when the worst thing that could happen happened: Her parachute didn’t open.
The plane was more than 13,000 feet above the ground when she jumped, and she hit the ground at about 80 miles per hour.
Hatmaker’s reserve parachute did actually deploy, but it made her main parachute pop out at the same time.
“They pulled away from each other in the air and then dragged me down in kind of a spiral motion,” she explained.
Once she realized she was going down, Hatmaker had one minute before she hit the ground.
Hatmaker believes that the way she fell saved her life, with her leg hitting the ground first.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
“She suffered several horrific injuries, but somehow she’s still alive to tell her story.”
Reminds me of a scene from F Troop. “He fly real good, but he land real bad.”
I fought the Law of Gravity, and the Law won...
Relax Body
Never a logical reason to jump from a perfectly good airplane.
She is a cutie.
The ground would hit it.
Tell that to a Paratrooper.
This article says it was 125 mph:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/11/skydiver-survives-after-slamming-to-the-ground-at-125-mph/
“...a broken back, leg, and ankle...”
If at first you don’t succeed . . . don’t try skydiving.
I know what broke her fall...
Umm...What were the charges?🤔
Jordan Splatmaker.
That must have been one long minute.
I would have been praying to God.
How much praying can you pack into one minute?
She looks happy in the photo above. I’ll bet she did pray.
Eighty or one hundred something my ass. Not STRAIGHT down at any rate you hit the ground at forty and it’s iffy as hell. Don’t ask me how I know this.
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