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Yom Kippur War’s Miracle Parachute Survival Story
Israel National News ^
| December 20, 2009
| Tzvi Ben Gedalyhahu
Posted on 12/20/2009 1:06:34 PM PST by Tzvi INN.com
Benny Ben-Dror parachuted from an exploding helicopter in the Yom Kippur War and miraculously survived. Ben-Dror had kept his survival story secret from the public until now.
“I was discharged from the IDF in August '73,” explains Ben-Dror, who is now 58, “and one Saturday morning in October I got a call: ‘There’s going to be a war. Come.’”
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: helicopter; israel; parachute; yomkippurwar
To: Tzvi INN.com
To: Tzvi INN.com
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12/20/2009 1:27:55 PM PST
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“Parachuting from a helicopter is so rare, that you can count such documented cases in the world on one hand, and in Israel there was only a single recorded case,” explains Jacob Cooper Using a chute to bail out of a helicopter is rare, but deliberately jumping out of or off of one is not unusual at all.
I used to work with a guy that jumped from Chinooks fairly frequently as a Guardsman.
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