What an amazing instructor. There is nothing that fills the pit of your stomach with despair than watching your student have a malfunction in front of you and not being able to do much. This instructor was searching like an eagle to find his student, then followed them down to render assistance (also executed a precision landing to be near to them). So proud of this instructor - they are a credit to the skydiving fraternity.
I completely disagree, you could see this student was in trouble, he should have got control of him before deployment. Epic fail. Good thing the student survived.
@@jeffstepp-ou8re You must have watched a different video than the rest of us. Given the single JM and the turns practice, this was most likely an AFF Stage 5 jump. The student likely has at least 5 jumps under their belt where they demonstrated controlled freefall flight. This is supported by the context included at the beginning of the video. The JM had good reason to believe the student was capable of carrying out the turn and likely also thought they'd be able to recover when the student's control started to waiver. The JM had 2 seconds from when the turn had obviously developed into an uncontrolled spin to when the student chose to deploy their main (1:35 to 1:37 in the video). You can see the JM attempted to grab the student BUT the spin was too fast for the JM to safely and successfully intervene. While waiting for a safe opportunity to grab the student, the student deployed. I see no safe opportunity to intervene by the JM and stand by my original comment. Wonder what experience you are backing your comment with?
@@FlightEagle I know what experience I have, so when I say the instructor should have noticed that even though he showed control on previous jumps, this student was losing control and should have intervened quicker. And I was probably skydiving before you were in grade school.
Back in 1972 I decided I wanted to go skydiving. Went to our local club, went through the instruction-on-the-ground training, harness training and malfunction training. Did my 10 static line jumps, loved it. At the time jumping a TU triple blank. My first 10 second freefall, I pulled my ripcord (the old metal cable with swaged locking pins through cones and nothing happened, the cable was stuck! Used both hands and basically forced the ripcord to work, now opening in a head towards the earth attitude! The chute opened and all was well. As a newby, I told my instructor what happened, he checked out the rig (clubs rig) and just about shat himself! The pins were all bent! From the on I checked my own rig and eventually bought my own Para Commander (long before squares were developed). I eventually changed over to hang gliding in its inception. A great sport which has evolved to this day! Keep flying, no matter what you fly!
When I took the skydiving course, in 1980, we also jumped with the TU, and I'll tell you something curious that I don't know if it was applied in the other skydiving clubs, the student who jumped had to fold the parachute that the next student would use. You can imagine that I kept an "eagle eye" on whoever was folding the parachute that I would use, obviously that's what everyone did. We didn't allow him even one extra wrinkle or fold, hahaha. Cordial greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay. Cuando yo hice el curso de paracaidismo, año 1980, también saltábamos con el TU, y te cuento algo curioso que no sé si se aplicaba en los demás clubes de paracaidismo, el alumno que saltaba debía plegar el paracaídas que usaría el siguiente alumno. Te puedes imaginar que vigilaba con "ojo de águila" a quien estaba plegando el paracaídas que yo usaría, obviamente eso hacían todos. No le permitíamos ni siquiera una arruga o un pliegue de más, jajaja. Cordial saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.
I mean, it's loads safer than driving a heavy metal vehicle at high speeds on a road filled with other people driving the same rigs or heavier, not all of whom are paying attention or are even capable of focusing correctly. No need to worry about anything other than the parachute itself somehow going wrong, but even then the backup usually tends to work right. And this case also proves that it's fully possible to survive even when that goes wrong as well.@@Possiblechange
In that kind of situation there's no time to think about what's happening. Your whole being is devoted to working the problem knowing that you're on a VERY tight schedule.
@@pucker672 An AFF student with major stability and awareness issues that set the whole shit show in motion. But if you read the description, he never stopped trying to free himself. Unfortunately, inexperience limited his chances of success and, in the end, it was dumb luck that saved him. I bet he never opens unstable again, though.
As a test pilot once told me, "if ejecting isn't an option, do your best to fly until the ground stops you. It's not hitting the ground that hurts you; it's the speed and angle that you hit the ground that can hurt you... or save you." Never give up. And all things considered, after a double malfunction, a broken pinky being the worst of your injuries makes you an extremely lucky person. Blue skies!
He's making a point that sometimes hitting the ground is catastrophic, while other times it can be relatively innocuous; if you find yourself in a situation where you're going to hit the ground in some uncontrolled, unintended way, you must stay calm and figure out ways to mitigate the situation to the best of your abilities, because you might still be able to change the tides from catastrophic to innocuous. This mindset is an important part of any aviation training. @@Reptex_cs
This one turned out to be one of those unexpected gems we sometimes find among all the streamlined crap here. A rollercoaster ride from the real world, unedited and raw. Thanks!
I was just about to say this. So happy you survived, unreal that you walked out of the ER in those conditions. This does show how long you can have to fight. Also thank you for the description of thinking to reach up and just try to get a steady glide! Great tip for students!
I jumper for 24 years, had 5 functions and one with both deployed, cut the main away and watched the main follow my reserve risers and clear, had to raise my legs to get over the power lines, did a cross wind landing, in a plowed field that was muddy due to a leaking utility water line, no broken bones, wasn’t my time to check out, THANK YOU JESUS, Blue Skies…..
ARCH, ARCH ARCH !! glad you are OK man. I know for a fact that getting out of control as a newbie is a terrifying experience. It happened to me 30 years ago. Study this video over and over with your instructor about every single thing that happened and learn from it. Going forward, you'll be a much better jumper because of this.
I didn't have the benefit of AFF in the early 80's. After a 3 second fall on a static line, you did the same count without a static line. As you said, we were told arch hard.
@@benstone5650 I did the static line method too, 1991. My instructor drilled it into me before each jump to arch arch arch. It was jump 9, 30 second freefall that I got outta control and went tumbling. It scared the holy beejesus outta me! LOL. :) Thank god I was plenty high enough to recover. I'll never forget that jump as long as I live.
My first freefall I got into a flat spin that I couldn't stop. I was near Portland, OR and all I could make out was Mt. Hood flashing by every second. I just pulled anyway. Major line twists but made it okay. I wrote in my logbook, "Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, dump." Man, those were the days.
Never gave up! What a great effort. Hope your pinky is OK, man. 25 years since I last nearly died and I still think about it every now again with a big grin and experience the joy of being alive all over again.
Correct. Poor body position at deployment time. But the AAFI can't control everything. Glad this student got lucky. Great job taking care of your student. I've had to follow a few bad ones down back in my day. It's tough on an AFFI seeing a student get a helicopter ride after they land.
@@alexxela754 the video said they did the exact same jump with no incident beforehand which makes me think that they had to redo that AFF level. Looks like stage 4 or 5. This is just a case of someone panicking and going against everything you're taught.
I'm glad you're okay! Thank you for sharing this experience that makes us even more responsible for our activity. I hope you get back on the plane soon.
When the position becomes unstable, you must arch and straighten your legs. The stable position then returns by itself. This happened to me when I was first starting out. Never panic!
So thankful you walked away. Incredible work at staying cool and fighting until the end. This could have ended very differently. Weather you jump again or not, please know you have the fighters spirit in you and that will get you so far in all aspects of life. Blue Skies brotha!
@@S-1-2-3-4-5 Glad you're ok...I hope you don't give up skydiving, this is a very rare situation..just never kick you legs..if you go out of control hit that big hard arch, if you're flat spinning pretend your hands are on a bike handle and turn the opposite way of the spin, while holding that arch...i had a malfunction on my 16th jump that shook me up a bit, but I moved on and made many more jumps until I got too old and fat...blue skies my friend.
yah he already payed him thousands of dollars why you think its extraordinaire the instructor being a instructor or worried- - - - that's what not makes sense
Its funny I was thinking almost the exact opposite He didnt gain control of his student He didnt open with his student He didnt follow the student under canopy He took nearly 2/3 minutes to get to the student upon landing under a mal... He fked up bigtime.
My Brother (Phillip) was a Jump Master, a Rigger, and a Pilot. He participated in many exhibitions such as the Grand Opening of the Renaissance Center in Detroit (jumped into the square 3 consecutive days). One day at the Ipselani, Michigan Airport, he and 6 other Jumpers were going to practice a 7 man Join-Up with a Starburst Exit. After exiting the plane, several of the Jumpers were already "hooked" awaiting the remaining few. As the remainder of the Jumpers approached the formation, one of them (total hot dog) came in too fast and smashed into one of the hooked Jumpers, knocking him unconscious. As the unconscious Jumper fell away, Phillip went vertical to catch him. While reaching terminal velocity, Phillip caught the still unconscious Jumper but could only reach his reserve chute ring, which he deployed. That Jumper landed while still unconscious but was unhurt. Let me explain something: The primary difference between a Main Chute and a Reserve Chute is that the Main Chute contains a "sleeve" that travels down the chute cords after opening thereby opening the chute slowly (relative term). The Reserve Chute does not have a sleeve, so when the chute opens, it opens abruptly. If you happen to be near Ipselani, Michigan and check out the Jump School (if it's still there) you will see a helmet on display that belonged to the unconscious Jumper. On the back of the helmet you will see two half-moon indentations. Those indentations are the result of the force where the unconscious Jumper's body was bent in half (backwards) and his heels hit the back of his helmet.
Arms too far forward caused him to extend his legs to compensate. Being too flat caused his instability. We used to call that potato chipping. His hands should be next to his ears, not out front. If you can easily see your wrist mounted altimeter, your hands are too far forward. God job surviving. Good job posting this so others can learn.
We still use the phrase "potatoe chipping" but more to describe that stalled position just before you get on the angle when flying angle/tracking/atmonauti jumps
A guy skydiving solo for the first time realizes that both of his parachutes won't open as he plummets to earth and begins to panic... then he sees another guy rocketing up towards him from the ground below with a big fireball beneath him... as the guy rockets by he yells at him, "Do you know anything about parachutes???"... and the rocketing guy yells back, "No, I don't, but do you know anything about propane barbecues???"
Man, I am so happy to see you walk away from this. I just got my solo license this summer and had to pull on my back once which was the right decision and I was lucky that it opened very nicely. Well done buddy saving your life. I hope you continue. Cheers.
@@sandyzeatyahoo With respect, I think sometimes experienced skydivers forget what it means to be a student. Of course, getting stable before pulling you could help to avoid a lot of problems that could happen by pulling unstable. But getting stable is easy for you and experienced jumpers, not for a student. Students may try until the end of their lives to become stable! That's why we have a 5-second rule for students to pull no matter what if they are unstable for 5 seconds.
@@hpAndromeda Yes I hear you 😊 I think the comment I made was me trying to put the point home not to dump on your back. We all care about each other in this sport and yes your right about students.
"Never open the chute unless you are stable" is absolutely _not_ what is taught to skydiving students, and with good reason. Your priority if you've lost control in freefall and can't regain it is to get a parachute deployed. Yes, the opening will be uncomfortable, but typically the opening parachute will clear your body. The student was unlucky on this occasion. In the old days, people impacted at terminal velocity precisely because they were trying to get stable all the way to the ground. These days it's likely an AAD will deploy your reserve instead - but isn't it better to be trying to clear a main canopy at 5,000 feet than to be trying to clear a reserve at 1,000 feet or less?
@@MrReasonabubbleI agree with everything said, u think the other guy meant try a little longer while u have some altitude to get stable, he may have be able to recover if he didn't pull chute right away
@@bravosden4383 yeah, quite possibly, and I didn't want to be mean about it. It's just that as expressed it's terrible advice, and I didn't want it just left there in case of the (unlikely) event that another student reads it and thinks, "Oh, okay." 🙂
Wow! Great job staying present in the moment and keeping your wits. During training, I had alot of trouble spinnning and had to pull mid-spin like you did. Thankfully mine opened without malfunction. I hope you keep at it. You survived a tough one and should be proud! Kudos to the instructor for staying on it and getting down quick to assist.
No shit dude, he's a student. And no one is perfect, we all make mistakes,that's why you shouldn't take skydiving lightly. Mistakes can cost you big time
@@AuroraClair what he's saying is that it's not the equipment that fails you, it's most likely that the skydiver did a mistake when something like this happens
The canopy was fine! The bad position on opening set the stage for the lines' entanglement to his legs and body. He was lucky the lines didn't go all around his body and harness locking the reserve completely! And thankfully he stopped the spinning before contact with the ground. That spin looked nasty when it was going and he wouldn't almost surely survive an impact with that spin going under a square canopy! Hopefully he got up and jumped again on the same day! Nothig the instructor could have done since he was already out of his hands and panic pulled! Remember the "banana" position in any unstable flop. It will always get you back to stable freefall. Try for fun high and you will see! Glad you lived to jump again buddy! Blue skies!
I love to fly, and have had friends who sky-dive and base-jump. (I'm a GA pilot who learned to fly to help conquer my acrophobia.) I flew over to another airport long ago, to watch sky-diving as I did nearly every week. It was uneventful for a while. I was standing beside a flight instructor I knew, watching the action, when one young man had a streamer. He pulled his reserve but it just caught in the streamer. The FI beside me who was watching, swore and threw his binoculars down on the ground and ran for the hangar. I watched as the young man hit the ground. I'm medically trained so I ran over to see if there was anything I could do to help, sadly, there was not, pulse was negative, I checked his pupils which were dilated but uneven and he had a little blood in his nose. We did CPR and worked on him until the ambulance arrived, but sadly, I learned that he did not survive. I was distressed and upset, but I had to get it together in order to fly myself back to my home airport, which I did without incident. I'll never forget that as long as I live. I've seen many accident results in the ER at work, and subsequent deaths. But for some reason I have never forgotten the horror of that incident. (I have in the past, gone up to drop sky-divers but I do NOT sky-dive myself.) And when I see these wing-suit divers today on Red Bull videos, and knowing many have died doing that, it seals my resolve to not do any more thrill-seeking like I used to do -- as you age, longevity starts to look very inviting!
In sky diving, when you have a streamer, you're taught to cut it away before you pull your reserve, otherwise the reserve will get caught in the streamer, then you'll have two of them, just as you described what happened to this man. Guess he didn't have a knife with him, to cut off the main, or some kind of device to free himself from the main streamer, before pulling the reserve.
@@kevinmalone3210 You are so right! I used to see sky-divers with a knife strapped to their lower leg, so they could grab it and cut away the faulty parachute. You MUST be able to think things out quickly when your main chute fails, it's NOT going to correct itself! I cannot recall now, whether the man who ground-crashed had a knife or not, but the FI who was standing beside me watching, just kept swearing as he was falling, and I didn't see a knife on the victim's leg when I ran over to start CPR on him. I checked his pupils first thing (and they were uneven and dilated, indicative of head trauma) and I was working to save him, knowing in my heart it was probably futile. I've seen many patients die in the ER and OR at work, but it's just horrible to see a healthy, young man fall to his death (especially since I have acrophobia anyway!) I can see it in my mind, even today, decades later. The only thing positive about that incident (if one can even find anything helpful about it) was that it helped me to understand what our soldiers go through in combat when their close buddy stops a bullet right beside him and dies in his arms, besides the fear and fright that goes with combat. I fully understand their PTSD now.
He didn't have a malfunction. He threw his drogue chute while upside down and spinning and the shrouds got tangled in his legs. Stabilise first, then deploy chutes. The reserve chute tangled in the main. This was not a malfunction. A clusterfuck, yes, but not a malfunction.
I'm sure as soon as you started spinning you thought "Hmmm, I better pull now and get as far away as possible from this pesky instructor who's trying to save my life right now."
Yeah I couldn't tell what happened after the flat spin panic pull.. not sure how he got so low. Almost like no rsl and chopped to a terminal reserve deployment in the basement
"I actually gave up a few times thinking there's nothing else I can do and I'm just going to die. But looking down and seeing that I still had altitude and time made me to try more and more to finally get something to work." That's not panic. That's thinking clearly in a terrifying situation.
"oh my god... I'm alive? I'm ALIVE!" 🚛 "whoooop! WHOOOOP! BOOM..." Before you get some heart attack, in former days at my skydiving days I landed in the woods, 15m above ground instead at the airfield. I know how that feels... 😆
No one seems to mention that the problem was self induced when he drops his knee at 1:32 and enters a spin. All he had to do was arch, relax, get stable again before pulling in a spin..
I didn't see malfunctions, I saw a student freak out and tangle himself up in his own risers. He was unsteady, he freaked, and he deployed the parachute all around himself. Who knows what he did to tangle up the reserve. I was glad to see the instructor decide to dump air and follow the student.
That is a malfunction. The parachute did not function as intended. That's what the word means. It doesn't matter what causes it to not function correctly. That's not part of the definition.
@@thomasdalton1508 Are you a skydiver using the word as the industry does, or just some TH-cam person talking about the dictionary definition? There was no malfunction.
@thomasdalton1508 what kind? There's no such thing as a 'malfunction,' so if you know what you're talking about, tell me what kind. While you're at it, tell me what kind of malfunction a car has when the driver steers into a tree. It's all human error, and you don't have a clue.
I'm guessing you're done skydiving. You should consider getting back to it. It is so much more fun once you have your A-License. If you decide to go back, I highly recommend getting some wind tunnel time. Tunnel time will help teach you control and stability, plus gives you a big confidence boost. I had difficulty with my fourth AFF jump. I did 30 minutes of tunnel time and passed every jump after with ease and with spare time to play. Glad you're ok!
I had almost exactly the same incident back in ‘95, except with less canopy open. Lucky I survived it. I was sore as hell everywhere, and wore an ortho boot on my right leg for 6 weeks. I used to laugh when I told people about it, and they’d ask “how the hell can you laugh?” . . . because I can . . .
This was NOT a malfunction. This was 100000% jumper error. His uncontrolled spin followed by him pulling his chute while upside down is what caused the main to "Malfunction" the way it did.
I remember doing the carnival ride tumble in the sky one day 30 years ago. After about the fifth flip, I figured screw this, I'm not gaining any altitude with these gymnastics, pull and hope for the best (yeah, not the best plan of action, but when you're falling at what feels like Mach Jesus, out of control, your mind tells you to do those things 😉 ). I pulled just as I was going inverted again. You know how things happen in slow motion when you're in a car wreck, and everything is clear in your mind? I remember vividly my feet, touching ankle to ankle, going perfectly through the center of the two sets of lines as they unfurled, like a football splitting the goal posts. I continued my backflip, the canopy unfurled, and other than a smooth half-twist in both risers, everything was good. I tested everything, and if I hadnt known that I just deployed upside down, and watched the canopy starting to deploy while my feet were pointing straight up at it, I never would've known anything was from different from a normal jump. Rode it down just like any other jump, uneventfully. Over beers later, the jumpmaster told me he was hanging out the door screaming "Arch! Arch!". I laughed and told him "If I could've heard you, I would've screamed back, 'if it was so easy, don't you think I would've done that four flips ago?!?" 😅
@@KLm912 I haven't been through AFFI course but I do know they drill spin stoppage over and over and over again. I went back and slowed it down and by the time the instructor had already watched him pull and then a few seconds later he checks alt and the instructor is at 6.3. So the spin was around 7-8kish. The student had time to correct but he felt the spin, out of control and just pulled it. The instructor should have seen the spin coming. He was dipping his right knee pretty hard.
i pulled on my back on my first prcp and had a streamer for about 12 seconds from 3500ft. then i looked at my altimeter and the line that was wrapped around it cleared and it opened up beautifully. didn't have a long canopy ride that time. nothing like this one though, that had to be some scary shit.
Iv had dreams were my rig goes through my legs like that. I still cant belive some people base jump and do a flip and then throw there rig through the bottom of there legs ! Crazzy ! And a super " No feeling " . God be with you both !
Absolutely terrifying. I don't know why this got recommended to me but I watched the whole thing and god that was bad. So glad you made it alive and hope healing is going well 🙏
I had a guy ask me that question a long time ago. He turned pale when I told him that the cessna we were jumping was not "perfectly good" 😅 and that we kept the door open all the time and were happy when we got above 700 feet... i swear that plane kept us on our toes lol. It had so many hours on it that as soon as everyone was out, the pilot shut off the engine and dead sticked it every time. Damn good pilot, but too many rolls of duct tape on that plane😂
Ууух! Вспомнила свой единственный прыжок, это было 9 лет назад, и парашют был другой, попроще. Зато эмоций сколько! Адреналин зашкаливал. При просмотре тоже нахлынуло😅 второй раз так и не смогла, к сожалению😢 хотела, но....
Good job saving your life. Priority number one is to pull. This is exactly what you did, good job. When the sh*t hits the fan, never give up, great job on this one too. Thousand other things could have happened if you had tried to get stable before you pull.
As a fellow skydiver, glad you’re alright brother. I’ve seen several videos of jumpers deploying their PC in crazy body positions, and it’s led to some terrible malfunctions. I thought to myself, all that green and your going to land on the damn highway? Glad you didn’t bro. You definitely owe the DZ a case of beer for that first and the rigger a bottle of his choice for the reserve.
Hi, wow that was incredible to watch, must've been so scary for you, really well done for managing to control as much of it as you could, and so very pleased that you're ok. Hey hope that little finger is ok again now as well !👍🏻👋🏻👋🏻🪂
Does pulling your main with your back still to the earth count as a malfunction? Lack of experience and rushing through the AFF levels was the cause. User error was nearly fatal. He’s so lucky he walked away from that.
As someone who has both licences, isn't the death rate of hang gliding way higher than parachutes? Or was it the accident rate? Modern parachutes are way safer, I saw plenty of accidents with hang gliders from collegues but never a single one with parachutes. The reserve on a hang glider is more or less cosmetic, given that most accidents happen on takeoff and landing, while parachutes nowadays open themselves when you pass out etc. (and lets not forget how the AFF lesson shown in this video has two instructors with you at the start, while learning hang gliding is pretty much "go figure it out yourself" especially when you get towed by an airplane for the first time 😂)
Yeah people always say this and it always strikes me as a really tedious, obtuse, lazy remark. Saying it's pointless or idiotic just because it's got inherent risks is illogical. We do loads of things with inherent risks - we manage the risks and accept them. Nobody's going skydiving and then going "wait a second, the plane was safe and this is dangerous, this wasn't necessary!"
It's been some time since I have been under canopy but in all situations the one thing that you need to practice when you are doing extreme sports or any dangerous activity are emergency drills, and practice them again and again so that when something happens that you don't expect the last thing you do is panic. I noticed early in the dive something happened and the response to it was not standard. My advice, go back to basics and spend more time on basics like recovering from a spin. Good that this ended without injury but panic will kill you need to practice and practice more. Get back up there, it's like riding a horse the best thing to do after you fall off is get right back on.
I think it’s because he didn’t level out first before pulling the chute. He was like upside down so the chute came out below and around him and tangled him up.
I’m confused… what happened in the first clip that was cut off immediately after the chute opened ? Then on the final clip, both main and reserve failed, but the failed reserve slowed him down enough to survive ? A little more explanation would be nice for those of us that aren’t parachuting experts.
Nothing special happened in the first jump, it was a good jump. This is a student who is learning how to skydive. In the second clip because he doesn't arch enough and his arms and legs are not symmetrical, he starts spinning. Instead of correcting the problem (by arching his back more and bringing his legs and arms closer to his body and together) he panicks and decides to deploy his main parachute. Deploying the parachute from an unstable position is always a bad idea, especially when you are turned on your back. You can see in this clip why it is a bad idea. The risers wrap around his leg and he is not able to free himself. He pulls his reserve, which fortunately for him slows him down enough to survive the fall. Both the initial problem and the problem of the risers around his leg could have been prevented by keeping a cool head, but as a student, he panicked. It happens
Great job by the AAF instructor to follow him. As retired instructor myself I was thinking location of student landing and going to be there to render assistance. Student free fall position needs improving.....
Well done to everyone. I'm so glad he wasn't injured. I can start breathing normal again. What a nail biting, butt clencher. I cannot even begin to imagine what it was for this guy and his instructor. I've only jumped once, I would have shat myself if things didn't go right.
that parachute didn't malfunction he panicked pulled to soon his body not right for deployment and his legs ended up in the lines from the get. glad he is physically good mentally I'm not sure I do know he needs to go right away and get right back on that horse or he never will.
On my second static line jump some years ago I was first out of a stuffed beaver, ended up hanging on the outside of the plane for a long time , left foot on the wheel before getting the tap from the jump master to go. Ended up in an out of control free fall from 3000 Ft and got the reserve out at less than 1000 Ft. After landing in a corn field I found the static line to the main shoot fully intact, it was never clipped off to the aircraft explaining why the go sign to go took so long.
only from all the war movies I can know that itbis a big no no to open during a spin. usually stallone or van damn or swartzeneger or even tom cruise are able to stabilize close to the ground and landing safe
Could you imagine seeing some guy upside down in the sky tangled in his parachute? If he had little to no drift from that parachute i wouldve assumed he didnt make it, but thankfully he did and landed on something soft
What an amazing instructor. There is nothing that fills the pit of your stomach with despair than watching your student have a malfunction in front of you and not being able to do much. This instructor was searching like an eagle to find his student, then followed them down to render assistance (also executed a precision landing to be near to them). So proud of this instructor - they are a credit to the skydiving fraternity.
I completely disagree, you could see this student was in trouble, he should have got control of him before deployment. Epic fail. Good thing the student survived.
@@jeffstepp-ou8re You must have watched a different video than the rest of us. Given the single JM and the turns practice, this was most likely an AFF Stage 5 jump. The student likely has at least 5 jumps under their belt where they demonstrated controlled freefall flight. This is supported by the context included at the beginning of the video. The JM had good reason to believe the student was capable of carrying out the turn and likely also thought they'd be able to recover when the student's control started to waiver. The JM had 2 seconds from when the turn had obviously developed into an uncontrolled spin to when the student chose to deploy their main (1:35 to 1:37 in the video). You can see the JM attempted to grab the student BUT the spin was too fast for the JM to safely and successfully intervene. While waiting for a safe opportunity to grab the student, the student deployed. I see no safe opportunity to intervene by the JM and stand by my original comment. Wonder what experience you are backing your comment with?
@@FlightEagle I know what experience I have, so when I say the instructor should have noticed that even though he showed control on previous jumps, this student was losing control and should have intervened quicker. And I was probably skydiving before you were in grade school.
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@@jeffstepp-ou8reyou make yourself seem even stupider at this point
Back in 1972 I decided I wanted to go skydiving. Went to our local club, went through the instruction-on-the-ground training, harness training and malfunction training. Did my 10 static line jumps, loved it. At the time jumping a TU triple blank. My first 10 second freefall, I pulled my ripcord (the old metal cable with swaged locking pins through cones and nothing happened, the cable was stuck! Used both hands and basically forced the ripcord to work, now opening in a head towards the earth attitude! The chute opened and all was well. As a newby, I told my instructor what happened, he checked out the rig (clubs rig) and just about shat himself! The pins were all bent! From the on I checked my own rig and eventually bought my own Para Commander (long before squares were developed). I eventually changed over to hang gliding in its inception. A great sport which has evolved to this day! Keep flying, no matter what you fly!
When I took the skydiving course, in 1980, we also jumped with the TU, and I'll tell you something curious that I don't know if it was applied in the other skydiving clubs, the student who jumped had to fold the parachute that the next student would use.
You can imagine that I kept an "eagle eye" on whoever was folding the parachute that I would use, obviously that's what everyone did. We didn't allow him even one extra wrinkle or fold, hahaha.
Cordial greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay.
Cuando yo hice el curso de paracaidismo, año 1980, también saltábamos con el TU, y te cuento algo curioso que no sé si se aplicaba en los demás clubes de paracaidismo, el alumno que saltaba debía plegar el paracaídas que usaría el siguiente alumno.
Te puedes imaginar que vigilaba con "ojo de águila" a quien estaba plegando el paracaídas que yo usaría, obviamente eso hacían todos. No le permitíamos ni siquiera una arruga o un pliegue de más, jajaja.
Cordial saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.
Or you could just not jump out of an airplane anymore…If humans were meant to fly we’d have wings
@@Possiblechange If we apply that same criterion, humans should not swim, since if they were meant to swim, we should have fins.
I mean, it's loads safer than driving a heavy metal vehicle at high speeds on a road filled with other people driving the same rigs or heavier, not all of whom are paying attention or are even capable of focusing correctly. No need to worry about anything other than the parachute itself somehow going wrong, but even then the backup usually tends to work right. And this case also proves that it's fully possible to survive even when that goes wrong as well.@@Possiblechange
No it's not safer than driving at all. You're experiencing months or years of driving risk in a matter of a few minutes.@@norrecvizharan1177
I kept thinking “all that beautiful land and he’s gonna hit the road 🤦♂️”
not sure why that warrants a face palm emojii
@@countcock5694Cause it would be quite a shame.
@@FollowFunk ok, my bad. Just used to psychopaths on yt who poke fun at serious accident vids.
If his name was Jack, he would have hit it 100%
@@DeWellstein DAMN
Dude lived more in those 5 minutes than most folks do in a lifetime 😂
In that kind of situation there's no time to think about what's happening. Your whole being is devoted to working the problem knowing that you're on a VERY tight schedule.
And probably shat himself more than most people do in a lifetime
@@davidjorgensen877 That guy wasn't working on s**t. They might as well have thrown a deer out of the plane.
a little harsh, just a student doing student things@@pucker672
@@pucker672 An AFF student with major stability and awareness issues that set the whole shit show in motion. But if you read the description, he never stopped trying to free himself. Unfortunately, inexperience limited his chances of success and, in the end, it was dumb luck that saved him. I bet he never opens unstable again, though.
As a test pilot once told me, "if ejecting isn't an option, do your best to fly until the ground stops you. It's not hitting the ground that hurts you; it's the speed and angle that you hit the ground that can hurt you... or save you."
Never give up. And all things considered, after a double malfunction, a broken pinky being the worst of your injuries makes you an extremely lucky person. Blue skies!
Its not hitting the ground that hurts you?
He's making a point that sometimes hitting the ground is catastrophic, while other times it can be relatively innocuous; if you find yourself in a situation where you're going to hit the ground in some uncontrolled, unintended way, you must stay calm and figure out ways to mitigate the situation to the best of your abilities, because you might still be able to change the tides from catastrophic to innocuous. This mindset is an important part of any aviation training. @@Reptex_cs
@@Reptex_cs he means you can hit the ground but if you can get it in a semi controlled state with a decent vertical speed, you can probably live
@@Reptex_cs Exactly what he said.. (well.. you didn't quote him fully)
You literally just watched a video that proves his statement..
@@ashhawk2346 seems like a complicated way of saying "land on the ground, but not too hard"
This one turned out to be one of those unexpected gems we sometimes find among all the streamlined crap here. A rollercoaster ride from the real world, unedited and raw. Thanks!
I was just about to say this. So happy you survived, unreal that you walked out of the ER in those conditions. This does show how long you can have to fight. Also thank you for the description of thinking to reach up and just try to get a steady glide! Great tip for students!
I've been told that skydiving is super safe, but the algorithm is feeding me parachute malfunctions back to back
and those are just the people who are recording
I jumper for 24 years, had 5 functions and one with both deployed, cut the main away and watched the main follow my reserve risers and clear, had to raise my legs to get over the power lines, did a cross wind landing, in a plowed field that was muddy due to a leaking utility water line, no broken bones, wasn’t my time to check out, THANK YOU JESUS, Blue Skies…..
24 years of challenging Jesus to save your ass lmao.
ARCH, ARCH ARCH !! glad you are OK man. I know for a fact that getting out of control as a newbie is a terrifying experience. It happened to me 30 years ago. Study this video over and over with your instructor about every single thing that happened and learn from it. Going forward, you'll be a much better jumper because of this.
I didn't have the benefit of AFF in the early 80's. After a 3 second fall on a static line, you did the same count without a static line. As you said, we were told arch hard.
@@benstone5650 I did the static line method too, 1991. My instructor drilled it into me before each jump to arch arch arch. It was jump 9, 30 second freefall that I got outta control and went tumbling. It scared the holy beejesus outta me! LOL. :) Thank god I was plenty high enough to recover. I'll never forget that jump as long as I live.
@@divindave6117 LOL! I think that we all had a similar experience. I was out of control for at least 30 minutes…..or so it seemed.
Sometimes when you look for adventure you get more than you bargain for.
My first freefall I got into a flat spin that I couldn't stop. I was near Portland, OR and all I could make out was Mt. Hood flashing by every second. I just pulled anyway. Major line twists but made it okay. I wrote in my logbook, "Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, dump." Man, those were the days.
Never gave up! What a great effort. Hope your pinky is OK, man. 25 years since I last nearly died and I still think about it every now again with a big grin and experience the joy of being alive all over again.
Not today, death!
The parachute didn't malfunction. The skydiver did not open it properly... Happy that he lived to show it.
Correct, someone didn't pay attention to too many things, including the deployment technique of a reserve.
Exactly, both the student and instructor screwed the pooch here. Never deploy on your back, unless it's an absolute last resort.
Correct. Poor body position at deployment time. But the AAFI can't control everything. Glad this student got lucky. Great job taking care of your student. I've had to follow a few bad ones down back in my day. It's tough on an AFFI seeing a student get a helicopter ride after they land.
Someone did make a bad and wrong decision when they told the student was ready for this solo dive…
@@alexxela754 the video said they did the exact same jump with no incident beforehand which makes me think that they had to redo that AFF level. Looks like stage 4 or 5. This is just a case of someone panicking and going against everything you're taught.
I'm glad you're okay! Thank you for sharing this experience that makes us even more responsible for our activity. I hope you get back on the plane soon.
So happy to see you didn’t have any major injuries!! You kept it together and saved your self!!
When the position becomes unstable, you must arch and straighten your legs. The stable position then returns by itself.
This happened to me when I was first starting out. Never panic!
So thankful you walked away. Incredible work at staying cool and fighting until the end. This could have ended very differently. Weather you jump again or not, please know you have the fighters spirit in you and that will get you so far in all aspects of life. Blue Skies brotha!
Thank you for the kind words!
@@S-1-2-3-4-5 Glad you're ok...I hope you don't give up skydiving, this is a very rare situation..just never kick you legs..if you go out of control hit that big hard arch, if you're flat spinning pretend your hands are on a bike handle and turn the opposite way of the spin, while holding that arch...i had a malfunction on my 16th jump that shook me up a bit, but I moved on and made many more jumps until I got too old and fat...blue skies my friend.
Excellent instructor, stayed with him the whole time ❤️
yah he already payed him thousands of dollars why you think its extraordinaire the instructor being a instructor or worried- - - - that's what not makes sense
@@marcosavila8215who cares about money here?
@@marcosavila8215 Instructors don't get paid thousands of dollars buddy
Its funny
I was thinking almost the exact opposite
He didnt gain control of his student
He didnt open with his student
He didnt follow the student under canopy
He took nearly 2/3 minutes to get to the student upon landing under a mal...
He fked up bigtime.
The student however did do a pretty good job in that situation..
What amazing control, guidance, and graceful landing of the instructor. Great job
My Brother (Phillip) was a Jump Master, a Rigger, and a Pilot. He participated in many exhibitions such as the Grand Opening of the Renaissance Center in Detroit (jumped into the square 3 consecutive days). One day at the Ipselani, Michigan Airport, he and 6 other Jumpers were going to practice a 7 man Join-Up with a Starburst Exit. After exiting the plane, several of the Jumpers were already "hooked" awaiting the remaining few. As the remainder of the Jumpers approached the formation, one of them (total hot dog) came in too fast and smashed into one of the hooked Jumpers, knocking him unconscious. As the unconscious Jumper fell away, Phillip went vertical to catch him. While reaching terminal velocity, Phillip caught the still unconscious Jumper but could only reach his reserve chute ring, which he deployed. That Jumper landed while still unconscious but was unhurt. Let me explain something: The primary difference between a Main Chute and a Reserve Chute is that the Main Chute contains a "sleeve" that travels down the chute cords after opening thereby opening the chute slowly (relative term). The Reserve Chute does not have a sleeve, so when the chute opens, it opens abruptly. If you happen to be near Ipselani, Michigan and check out the Jump School (if it's still there) you will see a helmet on display that belonged to the unconscious Jumper. On the back of the helmet you will see two half-moon indentations. Those indentations are the result of the force where the unconscious Jumper's body was bent in half (backwards) and his heels hit the back of his helmet.
Arms too far forward caused him to extend his legs to compensate. Being too flat caused his instability. We used to call that potato chipping. His hands should be next to his ears, not out front. If you can easily see your wrist mounted altimeter, your hands are too far forward.
God job surviving. Good job posting this so others can learn.
We still use the phrase "potatoe chipping" but more to describe that stalled position just before you get on the angle when flying angle/tracking/atmonauti jumps
Potato chipping is not the same as a flat spin
A guy skydiving solo for the first time realizes that both of his parachutes won't open as he plummets to earth and begins to panic... then he sees another guy rocketing up towards him from the ground below with a big fireball beneath him... as the guy rockets by he yells at him, "Do you know anything about parachutes???"... and the rocketing guy yells back, "No, I don't, but do you know anything about propane barbecues???"
😂
🤣😂
Yuk yuk
Wait, that's funny?? I don't even get it......
@@BostonBuzz the joke is that the guy is going up because he didnt know how to use his barbecue and the barbecue is the fireball
Man, I am so happy to see you walk away from this. I just got my solo license this summer and had to pull on my back once which was the right decision and I was lucky that it opened very nicely. Well done buddy saving your life. I hope you continue. Cheers.
Please never dump out on your back. Belly to earth. FS and FF we all know this. I've been jumping 15 years.
@@sandyzeatyahoo Yeah, the whole problem was pulling on his back. Not the right decision.
@@sandyzeatyahoo With respect, I think sometimes experienced skydivers forget what it means to be a student. Of course, getting stable before pulling you could help to avoid a lot of problems that could happen by pulling unstable. But getting stable is easy for you and experienced jumpers, not for a student. Students may try until the end of their lives to become stable! That's why we have a 5-second rule for students to pull no matter what if they are unstable for 5 seconds.
@@hpAndromeda Yes I hear you 😊 I think the comment I made was me trying to put the point home not to dump on your back. We all care about each other in this sport and yes your right about students.
@@sandyzeatyahoo Wow you're sooooo cool dude. Jumping for 15 years and forgetting the pull priorities, that is embarrassing....
Wow incredible, glad the student was OK. You are an awesome instructor too
so glad your still alive… you got some protection on high places but still never open the chute unless you are stable … cheers mate thanks for sharing
"Never open the chute unless you are stable" is absolutely _not_ what is taught to skydiving students, and with good reason.
Your priority if you've lost control in freefall and can't regain it is to get a parachute deployed. Yes, the opening will be uncomfortable, but typically the opening parachute will clear your body. The student was unlucky on this occasion.
In the old days, people impacted at terminal velocity precisely because they were trying to get stable all the way to the ground. These days it's likely an AAD will deploy your reserve instead - but isn't it better to be trying to clear a main canopy at 5,000 feet than to be trying to clear a reserve at 1,000 feet or less?
@@MrReasonabubbleI agree with everything said, u think the other guy meant try a little longer while u have some altitude to get stable, he may have be able to recover if he didn't pull chute right away
@@bravosden4383 yeah, quite possibly, and I didn't want to be mean about it.
It's just that as expressed it's terrible advice, and I didn't want it just left there in case of the (unlikely) event that another student reads it and thinks, "Oh, okay." 🙂
@@MrReasonabubble yeah fr😂 there's people out there that probably would tho😭
Wow! Great job staying present in the moment and keeping your wits. During training, I had alot of trouble spinnning and had to pull mid-spin like you did. Thankfully mine opened without malfunction. I hope you keep at it. You survived a tough one and should be proud! Kudos to the instructor for staying on it and getting down quick to assist.
The parachutes didn't malfunction. This was user error. You pulled the main chute while in the wrong position, while spinning.
No shit dude, he's a student. And no one is perfect, we all make mistakes,that's why you shouldn't take skydiving lightly. Mistakes can cost you big time
@@AuroraClair what he's saying is that it's not the equipment that fails you, it's most likely that the skydiver did a mistake when something like this happens
The canopy was fine! The bad position on opening set the stage for the lines' entanglement to his legs and body. He was lucky the lines didn't go all around his body and harness locking the reserve completely! And thankfully he stopped the spinning before contact with the ground. That spin looked nasty when it was going and he wouldn't almost surely survive an impact with that spin going under a square canopy! Hopefully he got up and jumped again on the same day! Nothig the instructor could have done since he was already out of his hands and panic pulled! Remember the "banana" position in any unstable flop. It will always get you back to stable freefall. Try for fun high and you will see! Glad you lived to jump again buddy! Blue skies!
Never give up, well done young man.
I love to fly, and have had friends who sky-dive and base-jump. (I'm a GA pilot who learned to fly to help conquer my acrophobia.) I flew over to another airport long ago, to watch sky-diving as I did nearly every week. It was uneventful for a while. I was standing beside a flight instructor I knew, watching the action, when one young man had a streamer. He pulled his reserve but it just caught in the streamer. The FI beside me who was watching, swore and threw his binoculars down on the ground and ran for the hangar. I watched as the young man hit the ground. I'm medically trained so I ran over to see if there was anything I could do to help, sadly, there was not, pulse was negative, I checked his pupils which were dilated but uneven and he had a little blood in his nose. We did CPR and worked on him until the ambulance arrived, but sadly, I learned that he did not survive.
I was distressed and upset, but I had to get it together in order to fly myself back to my home airport, which I did without incident.
I'll never forget that as long as I live. I've seen many accident results in the ER at work, and subsequent deaths. But for some reason I have never forgotten the horror of that incident. (I have in the past, gone up to drop sky-divers but I do NOT sky-dive myself.) And when I see these wing-suit divers today on Red Bull videos, and knowing many have died doing that, it seals my resolve to not do any more thrill-seeking like I used to do -- as you age, longevity starts to look very inviting!
In sky diving, when you have a streamer, you're taught to cut it away before you pull your reserve, otherwise the reserve will get caught in the streamer, then you'll have two of them, just as you described what happened to this man. Guess he didn't have a knife with him, to cut off the main, or some kind of device to free himself from the main streamer, before pulling the reserve.
@@kevinmalone3210 You are so right! I used to see sky-divers with a knife strapped to their lower leg, so they could grab it and cut away the faulty parachute. You MUST be able to think things out quickly when your main chute fails, it's NOT going to correct itself! I cannot recall now, whether the man who ground-crashed had a knife or not, but the FI who was standing beside me watching, just kept swearing as he was falling, and I didn't see a knife on the victim's leg when I ran over to start CPR on him. I checked his pupils first thing (and they were uneven and dilated, indicative of head trauma) and I was working to save him, knowing in my heart it was probably futile.
I've seen many patients die in the ER and OR at work, but it's just horrible to see a healthy, young man fall to his death (especially since I have acrophobia anyway!) I can see it in my mind, even today, decades later.
The only thing positive about that incident (if one can even find anything helpful about it) was that it helped me to understand what our soldiers go through in combat when their close buddy stops a bullet right beside him and dies in his arms, besides the fear and fright that goes with combat. I fully understand their PTSD now.
He didn't have a malfunction. He threw his drogue chute while upside down and spinning and the shrouds got tangled in his legs. Stabilise first, then deploy chutes. The reserve chute tangled in the main. This was not a malfunction. A clusterfuck, yes, but not a malfunction.
Once he deployed the chute while upside down, is there another way he could have responded more reliably?
@@Y-sq3xz Good question and hard telling, not knowing. All I'm saying is that it wasn't a malfunction.. Cheers, D.
I'm sure as soon as you started spinning you thought "Hmmm, I better pull now and get as far away as possible from this pesky instructor who's trying to save my life right now."
Some people panic when things get a little squirrelly. This guy is one of them.
Yeah I couldn't tell what happened after the flat spin panic pull.. not sure how he got so low. Almost like no rsl and chopped to a terminal reserve deployment in the basement
"I actually gave up a few times thinking there's nothing else I can do and I'm just going to die. But looking down and seeing that I still had altitude and time made me to try more and more to finally get something to work."
That's not panic. That's thinking clearly in a terrifying situation.
Glad you made it! Thanks for sharing the video, watching and learning from it could save someone's life.
Thank you for sharing. You have courage, survived are full of courage for sharing this. It wasn't your fault. The wind. You did amazing.
Jesus, you're so lucky that landed on the grass instead of highway!
"oh my god... I'm alive? I'm ALIVE!"
🚛 "whoooop! WHOOOOP! BOOM..."
Before you get some heart attack, in former days at my skydiving days I landed in the woods, 15m above ground instead at the airfield. I know how that feels... 😆
That was scary. Im happy he was ok. Thanks for posting.
No one seems to mention that the problem was self induced when he drops his knee at 1:32 and enters a spin. All he had to do was arch, relax, get stable again before pulling in a spin..
Brilliant instructor.
Damn could of ended really bad! Thanks for posting this. Don’t let this set you back in your skydive path! Blue skies!
I think u handled it like a pro. I got into spins while learning too. Good job man !
Wow! I’m always in awe of anyone that jumps out of a plane, their shute fails and they walk away with their lives!
Thank God for saving his life and a speedy recovery
I didn't see malfunctions, I saw a student freak out and tangle himself up in his own risers. He was unsteady, he freaked, and he deployed the parachute all around himself. Who knows what he did to tangle up the reserve. I was glad to see the instructor decide to dump air and follow the student.
That is a malfunction. The parachute did not function as intended. That's what the word means. It doesn't matter what causes it to not function correctly. That's not part of the definition.
@@thomasdalton1508 Are you a skydiver using the word as the industry does, or just some TH-cam person talking about the dictionary definition? There was no malfunction.
@@pucker672 The way the skydiving world uses the word, that was absolutely a malfunction.
@thomasdalton1508 what kind? There's no such thing as a 'malfunction,' so if you know what you're talking about, tell me what kind. While you're at it, tell me what kind of malfunction a car has when the driver steers into a tree. It's all human error, and you don't have a clue.
@@pucker672 In driving, we do usually reserve malfunction for a mechanical failure. In skydiving, it is a more general term.
That's a miracle.
In itself, I'm glad you made it😅
Shit man that was fking scary :O You did good job - I am glad you are ok!
I'm guessing you're done skydiving. You should consider getting back to it. It is so much more fun once you have your A-License. If you decide to go back, I highly recommend getting some wind tunnel time. Tunnel time will help teach you control and stability, plus gives you a big confidence boost. I had difficulty with my fourth AFF jump. I did 30 minutes of tunnel time and passed every jump after with ease and with spare time to play. Glad you're ok!
Same here. The wind tunnel time was invaluable
Great Work❤️ Stayed with him💪🏼
Good job on fighting to the end! Glad you walked away from that unharmed, you are very lucky!
I had almost exactly the same incident back in ‘95, except with less canopy open. Lucky I survived it. I was sore as hell everywhere, and wore an ortho boot on my right leg for 6 weeks. I used to laugh when I told people about it, and they’d ask “how the hell can you laugh?” . . . because I can . . .
This was NOT a malfunction. This was 100000% jumper error. His uncontrolled spin followed by him pulling his chute while upside down is what caused the main to "Malfunction" the way it did.
Student needed hands on still
So what you're telling me is you don't know what a malfunction is. Stop trying to act tough if you don't even know what you're talking about
@@chrisjeaaalbertos3802 I've jumped out of a plan enough times to know what a jumper induced error looks like.
@@chrisjeaaalbertos3802Do YOU know what a "malfunction" is??
Because what I saw was someone deploying their main while they were on their back.
@@joshriver75 You have access to google. Just try to google it, and surprise yourself
I remember doing the carnival ride tumble in the sky one day 30 years ago. After about the fifth flip, I figured screw this, I'm not gaining any altitude with these gymnastics, pull and hope for the best (yeah, not the best plan of action, but when you're falling at what feels like Mach Jesus, out of control, your mind tells you to do those things 😉 ). I pulled just as I was going inverted again. You know how things happen in slow motion when you're in a car wreck, and everything is clear in your mind? I remember vividly my feet, touching ankle to ankle, going perfectly through the center of the two sets of lines as they unfurled, like a football splitting the goal posts. I continued my backflip, the canopy unfurled, and other than a smooth half-twist in both risers, everything was good. I tested everything, and if I hadnt known that I just deployed upside down, and watched the canopy starting to deploy while my feet were pointing straight up at it, I never would've known anything was from different from a normal jump. Rode it down just like any other jump, uneventfully. Over beers later, the jumpmaster told me he was hanging out the door screaming "Arch! Arch!". I laughed and told him "If I could've heard you, I would've screamed back, 'if it was so easy, don't you think I would've done that four flips ago?!?" 😅
excellent instructor, stayed with him the whole time. you don't abandon the battle.
On the contrary, he is responsible for this incident in the first place. Way too many mistakes. Read my comment above for details.
@@KLm912 I haven't been through AFFI course but I do know they drill spin stoppage over and over and over again. I went back and slowed it down and by the time the instructor had already watched him pull and then a few seconds later he checks alt and the instructor is at 6.3. So the spin was around 7-8kish. The student had time to correct but he felt the spin, out of control and just pulled it. The instructor should have seen the spin coming. He was dipping his right knee pretty hard.
I would not be caught DEAD, doing a stunt like that! One slight deviation and "SPLAT!" Lights out! 👀😰😲😱💫
i pulled on my back on my first prcp and had a streamer for about 12 seconds from 3500ft. then i looked at my altimeter and the line that was wrapped around it cleared and it opened up beautifully. didn't have a long canopy ride that time. nothing like this one though, that had to be some scary shit.
Bless him.. Many more Good jumps.. Blue Sky’s.😎👍🏻
Iv had dreams were my rig goes through my legs like that. I still cant belive some people base jump and do a flip and then throw there rig through the bottom of there legs ! Crazzy ! And a super " No feeling " . God be with you both !
Absolutely terrifying. I don't know why this got recommended to me but I watched the whole thing and god that was bad. So glad you made it alive and hope healing is going well 🙏
Whoa, what an incredible outcome for such a possible tragic event. Cheers guys, so happy to see everyone was okay
One of my aircraft maintenance engineering instructors at BCIT said, "Why would anyone want to jump out of perfectly good airplane?"
I had a guy ask me that question a long time ago. He turned pale when I told him that the cessna we were jumping was not "perfectly good" 😅 and that we kept the door open all the time and were happy when we got above 700 feet... i swear that plane kept us on our toes lol. It had so many hours on it that as soon as everyone was out, the pilot shut off the engine and dead sticked it every time. Damn good pilot, but too many rolls of duct tape on that plane😂
Ууух! Вспомнила свой единственный прыжок, это было 9 лет назад, и парашют был другой, попроще. Зато эмоций сколько! Адреналин зашкаливал. При просмотре тоже нахлынуло😅 второй раз так и не смогла, к сожалению😢 хотела, но....
I can't begin to imagine how terrifying that was. 🤣 Glad you made it without any serious injuries!
Dude, I need a drink now. Well done both of you.
Great job handling that! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you are safe, all the best. Blue sky.
Thank God you are ok. It was frightening to watch this. I prayed you were ok. Please be careful.
Unbelievible! You are a lucky man!
Good job saving your life. Priority number one is to pull. This is exactly what you did, good job. When the sh*t hits the fan, never give up, great job on this one too.
Thousand other things could have happened if you had tried to get stable before you pull.
As a fellow skydiver, glad you’re alright brother. I’ve seen several videos of jumpers deploying their PC in crazy body positions, and it’s led to some terrible malfunctions. I thought to myself, all that green and your going to land on the damn highway? Glad you didn’t bro. You definitely owe the DZ a case of beer for that first and the rigger a bottle of his choice for the reserve.
you're*
It was scary watching you fall, i guess how much worried your piolet and friends must have. god bless your saved.
Crazy how stable he was on the first jump compared to the second jump. Glad he fought his way throught it. Lucky.
Hi, wow that was incredible to watch, must've been so scary for you, really well done for managing to control as much of it as you could, and so very pleased that you're ok. Hey hope that little finger is ok again now as well !👍🏻👋🏻👋🏻🪂
Does pulling your main with your back still to the earth count as a malfunction? Lack of experience and rushing through the AFF levels was the cause. User error was nearly fatal. He’s so lucky he walked away from that.
The pink splint at the end served as serious comedic relief I was holding my breath until the. 😂
I’m glad you lived to see the next day. I hope you’re living well.
For a while I thought he was gonna land on a road !. Incredible he survived, delighted he did !
Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane...has never made sense to me...and I'm a former competitive hang-glider pilot, who has witnessed friends die!
As someone who has both licences, isn't the death rate of hang gliding way higher than parachutes? Or was it the accident rate? Modern parachutes are way safer, I saw plenty of accidents with hang gliders from collegues but never a single one with parachutes. The reserve on a hang glider is more or less cosmetic, given that most accidents happen on takeoff and landing, while parachutes nowadays open themselves when you pass out etc. (and lets not forget how the AFF lesson shown in this video has two instructors with you at the start, while learning hang gliding is pretty much "go figure it out yourself" especially when you get towed by an airplane for the first time 😂)
Yeah people always say this and it always strikes me as a really tedious, obtuse, lazy remark. Saying it's pointless or idiotic just because it's got inherent risks is illogical. We do loads of things with inherent risks - we manage the risks and accept them. Nobody's going skydiving and then going "wait a second, the plane was safe and this is dangerous, this wasn't necessary!"
It's been some time since I have been under canopy but in all situations the one thing that you need to practice when you are doing extreme sports or any dangerous activity are emergency drills, and practice them again and again so that when something happens that you don't expect the last thing you do is panic. I noticed early in the dive something happened and the response to it was not standard. My advice, go back to basics and spend more time on basics like recovering from a spin.
Good that this ended without injury but panic will kill you need to practice and practice more.
Get back up there, it's like riding a horse the best thing to do after you fall off is get right back on.
I think it’s because he didn’t level out first before pulling the chute. He was like upside down so the chute came out below and around him and tangled him up.
I’m confused… what happened in the first clip that was cut off immediately after the chute opened ? Then on the final clip, both main and reserve failed, but the failed reserve slowed him down enough to survive ? A little more explanation would be nice for those of us that aren’t parachuting experts.
Nothing special happened in the first jump, it was a good jump. This is a student who is learning how to skydive. In the second clip because he doesn't arch enough and his arms and legs are not symmetrical, he starts spinning. Instead of correcting the problem (by arching his back more and bringing his legs and arms closer to his body and together) he panicks and decides to deploy his main parachute. Deploying the parachute from an unstable position is always a bad idea, especially when you are turned on your back. You can see in this clip why it is a bad idea. The risers wrap around his leg and he is not able to free himself. He pulls his reserve, which fortunately for him slows him down enough to survive the fall. Both the initial problem and the problem of the risers around his leg could have been prevented by keeping a cool head, but as a student, he panicked. It happens
It's nice that I can watch this safely behind my computer... in my home...on my chair.
Damn buddy. Glad to know you’re ok
Courageous fight man! ... An inspiration!
Great job by the AAF instructor to follow him. As retired instructor myself I was thinking location of student landing and going to be there to render assistance. Student free fall position needs improving.....
Holy shieet! He had enough time to see his life and all past respawns flash in front of him. lol
Fantastic, unique 👌 -- I don't know worlds to say YOU my Congratulations ✌✌✌✌✌↗️↗️↗️🙋♂️
Well done to everyone.
I'm so glad he wasn't injured.
I can start breathing normal again.
What a nail biting, butt clencher.
I cannot even begin to imagine what it was for this guy and his instructor.
I've only jumped once, I would have shat myself if things didn't go right.
Had the same problem with a tandem... broke a damn site more than my pinky. Lucky lad 👍
Wow... That must of been terrifying😮 Thank God the young man is alive and well 🙏💕
1:35, why he pulled the parachute early when he's spinning around?
that parachute didn't malfunction he panicked pulled to soon his body not right for deployment and his legs ended up in the lines from the get. glad he is physically good mentally I'm not sure I do know he needs to go right away and get right back on that horse or he never will.
yeaahhh something tells me that dude is NEVER GETTING ON ANOTHER PLANE AGAIN i wouldnt either
Well done in getting through it. Now when you jump, just think "nothing can be that bad again".
glad you made it out, and happy to see someone stopping to check
glad you made it.....be careful....a nice jig saw puzzle can be fun and entertaining....
On my second static line jump some years ago I was first out of a stuffed beaver, ended up hanging on the outside of the plane for a long time , left foot on the wheel before getting the tap from the jump master to go. Ended up in an out of control free fall from 3000 Ft and got the reserve out at less than 1000 Ft. After landing in a corn field I found the static line to the main shoot fully intact, it was never clipped off to the aircraft explaining why the go sign to go took so long.
I want to know whether he did another jump after that one, or whether he decided that taking up croquet would be more his speed.
Nice job from everyone 👍🏼
Never stop the fight 🤜🏼
@ 5:27 - Parachute safety 101- Always remember to start singing MJ's Smooth Criminal if you land safely
That's why I won't jump out of a perfectly good airplane !!
only from all the war movies I can know that itbis a big no no to open during a spin. usually stallone or van damn or swartzeneger or even tom cruise are able to stabilize close to the ground and landing safe
Well done. Did what you had to ...sometimes it doesnt work out quite as you hoped. Glad you're OK Hope you keep at it.
Could you imagine seeing some guy upside down in the sky tangled in his parachute? If he had little to no drift from that parachute i wouldve assumed he didnt make it, but thankfully he did and landed on something soft