At 4,000ft, Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string and realised something was very wrong. With the speed of her descent increasing, she braced herself for impact
At 4,000ft, Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string and realised something was very wrong. With the speed of her descent increasing, she braced herself for impact
Horseshoe malfunctions are no joke. She’s lucky to still be alive, for sure.
Today I learned : a parachute may deploy in a distorted, horseshoe-like shape.
Yeah, it’s one of the more dangerous ones because it can lead to exactly what she experienced, which is two parachutes out at the same time.
Or your reserve can get tangled up in the lines from the main, which is also, as we say in skydiving circles, “really fucking bad.”