Jump goes wrong, parachutist snags on UC

[fly_tornado]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4z4ETOBFw

[SDQDI]

Now that would NOT be fun!

 

 

[planedriver]

Fortunately a very good outcome for all concerned.

 

Good that the fuel gauge wasn't too far south.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

This has happened a couple of times now. Fortunately we have learned from this when it happened here some years ago. A small bootie on the leg of the jumpsuit that slips over the toes of the shoe can get caught on a standard Cessna step. These are removed here and a more substantial step is put in place. Lucky the jumper had his hook knife, took a while for him to remember. Pilot or the aircraft owner is at fault here as it is a requirement to carry a mother of a bowie knife in the aircraft.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I'm confused as to how he managed to injure his hand with the hook knife. If it was anything like the one I used to use for hang gliding, there was no way you could cut yourself with it.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

only if you stuck your finger in it.

 

 

[Marty_d]

That's what I mean... the slot with the blades in it was too small to allow a finger. You could let a kid play with it. (They may end up looking like Chopper Read, but their fingers would be safe.)

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

I have a early model wide mouth 'Jack the Ripper' hook knife that will cut your thumb off no problems. Even slashing away madly with the little ones will cut a finger down to the bone. May not have even been the knife that did the damage.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

i reckon being swung by your ankle from a flying plane for 30 minutes would make your brain fairly well scrambled