I love how even after this epic flub when the student deploys his chute the jump master still looks up to check if the student has got a good chute. What a rock star!!!
Lost my friend Harry Parrish at West Point Skydiving in VA in 2009 when a student pulled Harry's reserve handle on climb out. His reserve pulled him into the plane's tail, causing head and neck trauma . Rescue found him the next day hanging from a tree about 3 miles from the DZ. Blue skies my friend 😢
Carroll Heatley....Thanks man, miss him all the time. It's an inherently dangerous sport, and we do what we can to minimize the risks, that said, everytime the aircraft leaves the ground I wonder "are my friends going to make it down safely on this jump, am I ?" And we keep going up!! 🤔
Voo Doo1 yeah I plan on doing my first tandom dive next month, I'm very excited, I know the risk but what's the use in living if you don't have fun while your living
the look on his face is priceless. i dont sky dive but i would imagine youd need to have a certain sense of humor and calmness like this guy does in order to do it as an instructor. after watching a few of these videos it seems like the most dangerous variable of all is just jumping with a beginner lol
Wow. That’s so spooky. Glad you made it down safe. I’m considering getting my AFF certification. If I do I’ll be sure to keep my hands out where I can see them and not flail. I would feel awful if I accidentally cause this kind of danger to someone.
For those of you confused at what happened--the student accidentally pulls the cutaway handle at 0:18 This cutaway device is used in the event you have a malfunction with your primary shoot (rips, gets entangled, etc.). It causes the primary to "cutaway" leaving you only with your reserve.
Just to show people the time stamp for when the incident occurs. Happens really quickly and is easily missed. I missed it the first time through. I saw comments asking what happened and just figured I'd respond.
Oh, thanks! The time stamp helped me figure out what was going on. I figured the guy in street clothes was the student cause usually in sports, the pros are dressed better than the amatures so I had no clue what was going on until I saw your time stamp. At 1:46, the instructor releases something from his hand and it flies away. What is that?
The pilot chute (~12-18in). This drags open the main canopy--which in this case meant dragging it right off his body. Ironically enough, he actually reaches for his cutaway handle around 1:56-2:12 because he knows something went wrong with his main. That's when he realizes that it's already been deployed. He then checks to make sure the main canopy was properly ejected and then pulls his reserve. At 2:22 he is looking up and praying that the line isn't tangled--because there is f**k all he can do about it at this point. At 2:25 he is thinking "What the actual f**k". And at 2:40 it's all starting to make sense. Terrifying, fast, and hilarious in hindsight.
At about 1 minute exactly, the airstream completely takes away the cut away pad and attached cable from the instructors kit. At 40 seconds, the other camera angle shows best when the student actually pulled it. So the other instructor probably never saw the pad flapping around because his camera was likely mounted on his helmet which is higher than his line of sight from his own eyes, so we can see it on the video but he couldn't. After one minute no one could have seen anything as it was completely gone.
Happened to someone I was with on a load once whose cutaway pad got dislodged on exit. It’s a really confusing ‘malfunction’ as obviously the main leaves the pack as soon as the pilot chute is thrown with the confusion being going for the cut away pad (if that’s your choice of Emergency Procedure) and it isn’t there so no red silver option. A high speed malfunction requires immediate attention especially for those who pull at 2500 or even lower 😬 Nothing to do but pull silver. Had he had an RSL on his system the reserve would have deployed with the main canopy being the pilot chute in a situation like that. Wonder how many beers it cost the guy .😊
Hi, It seems legit and maybe he felt embarrassed.. You guys (at the school) might wanna call him and ask him to come back and tell him no hard feelings...it happens to the best of us. Thats why its called school..(To learn) if we all know everything, then there will be No Need for schools... Hopefully he will come back. Great video Bruh.
Terminal reserve deployment...fun!! I thought the other instructor would have pointed it out in case you took it down to 2000' but maybe he couldn't see the handle flopping around from his side of the student.
Watch the arm of the guy in black and yellow just after 0:20 and grabs the red guys cord and pulls it at 0:23 under the cameraman's (red guy) arm Then when he pulls his chute, the main wont be connected since the chute cord that was pulled was a breakaway in case it tangles or fails. He only had his reserve chute left.
Does the RSL trigger the reserve immediately when the cut away handle is pulled or only at the moment the main gets cut away? Because if it triggers it immediately, this could have been even more dangerous should the student have pulled on the handle while exiting.
@@lefevrealban the rsl is connected to one of the risers, when the 3 ring is completely unlocked and the risers 'leave' you, it would pull the reserve pin... so it would just continue the pull for the jumper in this case, from main to reserve, like a delayed deployment and he would just think, what? - wrong rig or why did the canopy change...
So this is what happens if you cutaway before deploying? Good to know. :-D Just imagine the instructor swearing at the person packing the parachute before he found out what actually happened. :-)
The first student on the next load after my third aff jump bounced but it made me decide to keep going rather than quit. He static lined (first jump) had a riser under his arm, panicked and pulled the duel cutaway while viciously still holding onto his slider - there were finger stretches all though it. Really sad stuff but life carries risks.
@@jaffacalling53 no there is one cutaway handle and one reserve handle. People talk about skydiving all the time and have never been involved in the sport. It’s honestly amazing how many people try tell me about it until I finally call them out and let em know I have more than a couple hundred jumps and they are incorrect on about everything. This original post is a bunch of bs and not based on any real incident.
So sad the student didn't come back... Glad you made it safely to the ground. Watching this I wonder if instructors shouldn't hold student's arms for the few firqt seconds out of the airplane. Anyone could react that way and grab a random thing for his first jump.
Been there done that, except I instantly recognised what happened and started to swear, waved off and pulled my reserve. Almost lost my canopy in a thick swampy forest, took most of a week to get it back wasn't a happy camper at all.
anonymous69 ...because he didn't know the cutaway was pulled. Hence the awkward looking around as he's waiting for his main to deploy, before he pulled reserve (no RSL, tsk tsk!). Even if he knew, SOP is to deploy reserve at your planned deployment altitude.
@@robertparks6115 When Cutaway handle is pull (before Main deployement) the main is automatically Cutted away ( lost) when he pull.. 1:37 Look at him LET GO HIS MAIN (lost) and he deploy his reserve after looking up if he is secure...
I'm making the assumption that, due to the few seconds lag between deploying the pilot shoot and pulling the reserve, the JM did not realize the student had pulled his cutaway handle until after the main detached.
I'm a bit cofused - did his AAD activate the reserve, or did he have to do it manually? I thought the reserve is pulled automatically after cutting the main? (No clue - No experience in jumping, just binge watching obsessively for the past 2 days 😂😂)
So, what exactly is going on here in layman's terms? He pulled a cable, but nothing deployed, so I'm a bit confused. Guy filming threw his main and it instantly blows off into the distance, which he then realizes to throw the reserve?
In like the first 15 seconds or so of the video you can see the student pull the red handle off the instructor. That handle is to release the main parachute from the pack in the event of a failed deployment to get the main chute out of the way for reserve deployment. When he tried to deploy the main it just left the pack and went away because it had already been disconnected.
In the mid to late 1970's, I saw an instructor cause a student to have to pull his emergency chute. This student was the first one out. In position under the wing, the instructor signaled him to go. As the instructor reached to haul in the static line, now detached from the jumper's rig, there was nothing there. The instructor said loudly, "Oh my god, I forgot to hook him up". Then after a few tense seconds he said, "He's Ok". After struggling to get three dummy pulls in a row in order to move on to doing "hop-n-pops", where he opens his chute on his own, the skydiving club allowed this to count as his third, Ha!. I was next out, and was laser-focused on my static line as I moved to sit in the door prior to my jump. Another time, the plane did not have a peg coming out of the fuselage for the left foot. Instead, your pivoted out with your left foot on the right wheel. The pilot forgot to put on the brakes. As I grabbed the strut and pulled myself out of the plane, my left foot immediately caused the wheel to spin and I was hanging on the strut like a rag doll. My jumpmaster signaled for me to go and I went into my arch. Later a friend of mine asked how my arm was. I didn't know what he was talking about. He was incredulous. "Didn't you feel that?" He said he could hear my left arm hit the wheel. I had not gotten as far out from the plane as normal since my foot rolled off of the wheel. But I felt nothing and had no bruising later. The miracle of adrenalin.
Couple of things here: damn that would be expensive if he doesn’t find his main... also why is the instructor allowing the students to have his hands close... it appears to be a level 1-3 aff, shouldn’t he be in position to have arms out to present to wind stream?
Good luck trying to find that main. I would be pissed if i had been you. Your going to be walking around in the woods for days and still may never find it.
Question: I assume the Main just flies away after pulling the Pilot Chute out... In such a scenario (given that the RSL is working) would the reserve come right out after the main lis gone or would I still have to actively pull the reserve handle? (I'm an AFF student, dont freak out if the answer is obvious to you...)
