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You think you had a bad day?

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 10:31 am
by Exnav
It could be worse. You could be this guy.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... vail1.html

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 10:38 am
by britincali
That could have been so easily me 2 weeks ago.....

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 10:55 am
by xtremeslide
i'm afraid about this things i prefer that




Posted: January 6th, 2009, 11:55 am
by redrocket190

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 12:08 pm
by xtremeslide

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 4:26 pm
by MICK
Well redrocket that's probably the worst free fall accident I've ever seen :( That or the guy that got ran over by a commercial airliner during flight...

I almost passed through a cherry's canopy at 5K this November and thought that was pretty shitty. But damn...never come close to hitting a fuck'n bridge :shock:

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 6:28 pm
by Mad Dog
Shrinkage? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 7:02 pm
by AlisoBob


This is a real sad story... with a sliver lining.

:cry:

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 7:44 pm
by MICK
I was looking for that vid Bob, actually you found a better version than I was aware of.

We jump a Cypress system on our rigs. You turn it on at the DZ or you can program the altitude of ground level for your projected DZ. It senses barametric pressure as you're falling through the atmosphere. For night jumps now we can wear ear pieces so that the Cypress tells us what altitude we're at. Anyways, at 1500 if we're traveling faster than 28ft per sec it automatically deploys the main chute. What you saw in that video was the Cypress doing it's job. Actually the rig you see in the video that deployed was the man who was killed. In another video you can see the survivor's legs become amputated.

Oh and that man's ex wife needs fucking run over with a garbage truck :evil: What a piece of shit :!:

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 8:12 pm
by AlisoBob
MICK wrote:Oh and that man's ex wife needs fucking run over with a garbage truck :evil: What a piece of shit :!:
My take is she was (98% sure) banging the guy who died.

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 9:37 pm
by ISBB
This was my bad day today..

http://www.annistonstar.com/breaking/20 ... 6l0617.htm That alignment shop is not to far from where i am working.