Honduras Independence Day Celebration came off with a few hitches
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Looks like someone forgot to check the winds prior to letting them jump, or those paratroopers are incompetent.
At the game in Ireland (PSU vs Central Florida) they had two jumpers before the game to deliver the ball. One landed safely and presented the game ball to the ref. The other got blown out of the stadium and landed on railroad tracks.
I was on a large military tng exercise back in the 80s out in California that involved a very large airdrop of paratroopers & equipment. U.S.Army brass wanted the event to go off, winds were on & off unfavorable but they jumped anyway. A large # of paratroopers were injured. I had to help coordinate medical evacuations to various military medical facilities. Jumping from aircraft requires safety first.
That kind of reminds me of the first time I went skiing at Oregon Hill. I had to fall down or I was going through the parking lot.
there is a huge skydiving place near where i live. for 4th of July, at the community pool celebration they announced that they were going to have skydivers jump and land in the pool. Normal sized 6 lane pool. So everybody is standing at the edge of the pool and looking up at 2PM and see the plane go by and skydivers jump out. So as they are coming down, I think somebody recognized that sure, the skydiver said they could land in something the size of the swimming pool but with everybody standing around the right at the edge, meant the skydivers basically had to land dead nuts in the direct middle of the pool as when you have a ring of people at the edge that are 6' tall, you have to go over them to get to the pool. So the pool manager is screaming at everybody to move back. And of course the entire pool is full as 4th of July and it is crowded and everybody is crowded around the pool to see these skydivers. So it is like 6 or 7 rows deep so not easy to just back up. So the manager is running around the pool edge pushing people back. And as the skydivers got closer and you see how fast they are moving(which is way, way faster then you can imagine) the smart parents started to see the issue and moving way back. Luckily there was enought time to get everybody back about 6 or 8 foot from the edge and the first guy landed in the pool. the second guy ended up landing in the back part of the pool in the grassy area. but for a few seconds it was pretty scary.
that place local that has the skydiving about once per 18-24 months has a parachute that doesn't open. You used to read it in the paper when you actually got the paper delivered to your house.
that place local that has the skydiving about once per 18-24 months has a parachute that doesn't open. You used to read it in the paper when you actually got the paper delivered to your house.
Had the same experience at Ft. Sill, OK...one of the chutes did a Roman candle...the poor guy hit the ground and bounced a good ten ft in the air...and survived.
