Top 5 Skydives Gone Wrong 

*slowly erases skydiving from bucket list*

Is this a birthday gift to speed up the granny's entry to paradise?

I joined an Army National Guard Airborne unit years ago. The company of almost 200 men and women had jumped from a C141 the year before at the start of their 2 week training. It was a night jump. The Air Force personnel that ran the jump from the aircraft F'ed up and had them beginning their jump when they were halfway into the drop zone. Almost the entire company landed in an area covered with huge rocks and trees. The First Sargent was one of the last to be discharged from the Army with a medical disability. He could not walk without a cane. He said you could hear bones breaking like popcorn popping. Over 100 people in the company were medically discharged with permanent, physical injuries! I made 5 jumps to qualify, 3 from Huey's, 1 C130, and 1 C141. Then I was made net control station (NCS) operator of ground communications for jumps (when one was needed) as I was the only person in the entire battalion who had experience working as an NCS operator of radio net, outside of a training classroom. I was very happy with that, not having to jump.

Well that’s one thing off the bucket list 😮

Imagine having a whole empty desert to land in and somehow you hit the only solid object for miles.

legend says that last guy is still at it to this day

Wow! That last Ghost parachute was insane!

i just can imagine how glad you have to be, to feel so good to live, after surviving something like this. then you going to start living and appreciate the life for real.

*YOU:* "OMG I will never go skydiving now WTF!" *ME:* "Top 5 Standing on the Sidewalk Gone Wrong"

Glad I watched this after going skydiving

Yep definitely crossing this off my list

I’ve done 170 jumps in years gone but over here in Britain we are taught that you NEVER deploy a reserve without first cutting away your main. That is just asking for trouble.

Imagine yourself going unconscious and waking up in the middle of a sky dive

THIS IS WHY WE WERE BORN WITH LEGS NOT WINGS.

I've gone skydiving once. I paid to solo. They did a day's worth of training and had 2 jump masters on both sides of me when we did it. It all went well until I pulled the cord and the parachute immediately twisted. You spin so fast that you barely realize what happened. I looked up and the lines were twisted but I was vertical. They had talked about this in the school and said you should start kicking your feet "rotationally" in the direction to untwist it.. I did that.. and it very quickly untwisted.. Then I was like.. huh.. that went ok.. I checked the lines.. All was well so I disconnected the "I think they're called toggles" to steer with and floated to the ground!

My one and only jump in 1984 was very similar to 1:15 minus the injuries. It was a static line jump with modified military chute from a Cessna 172. It had same type flip up door and step platform bolted to the landing gear. Had a good exit at 3000 feet off the platform after climbing out and a good opening. Was aiming for a target in the grass near the runway and was about to bullseye the landing when a sudden wind gust came when I was about 100-125 feet up. It caught me good and no toggling helped so it put me right over the paved runway. I landed with the proper form but hit very hard and why I didn't break anything I'll never know. Nothing broken but I had to see a chiropractor a few days later. I was 36 years old at the time. I was the first one out of the plane but the 2nd guy out had a bad landing. I was picking up my chute after checking myself over when I saw him land poorly and not get up. I dropped my chute, ran over, and he was really screaming because he had shattered both ankles. On the second plane load a jumper had his reserve chute deploy when they opened the door but they fortunately contained it and decided to land. I was going to make a second jump that day but promised my wife if the whole deal looked like a cluster fuck I wouldn't jump. I did get the 1st jump in but decided not to do a second. That was the end of my parachuting adventure. I'm now about to celebrate my 75th birthday and sometimes when I think back on it I wonder what the hell was I ever thinking. Oh, I almost forgot. My buddy who talked me into the whole deal landed in the trees. Bad day.

Watching this was scarier than when I actually went skydiving

Guy: look there’s a plane!!😱 We might get hit!!!!! Girl: wooooo yeah!!!!!! Woohoo!!!

Just went this past weekend. 1 of the greatest experiences i’ve ever had

A video that reinforces my decision to never jump out of a perfectly fine airplane

They have the whole sky yet the two planes collide

I'm sorry, but I couldn't stop laughing at the last scene with the "dirt devil" dragging that guy all over. And then other people were trying to catch him. Classic.

Some info about the five numbered ones... #5 - The harness was properly adjusted to begin with but the way she fell in the door (not shown in this compilation) let her slip out a bit. Harnesses have been redesigned to prevent this. #4 - Arm severed from spine is a stupid thing to say...but the skydiver did suffer enough nerve damage that he lost the arm. #3 - An issue with the way the rig was manufactured caused the snag preventing proper deployment & cutaway. That manufacturer has redesigned the rig to prevent that type of malfunction in the future. #2 - They didn't almost hit a plane...the plane almost hit them. That plane is the one they jumped out of, the pilot was trying to get back to the ground as soon as possible. #1 - The video says 6 skydivers but there were actually 9 (4 in one plane, 5 in the other). Everyone survived...all 9 jumpers got out & away, the pilot bailed out of the plane that lost the wing, the other pilot was able to land safely.

That lady at the beginning really got her money's worth paying for the video.

Wow , this was intense , amazing footage

I did one solo skydive after a days training from 3,000ft. The shute is a static line, rather like the old war films and is connected to a line that pulls the cord as you leave the plane. The shute opened ok but the lines were twisted when it opened, we were taught to spin to undo it and this worked. I then gripped the risers (or toggles) and by luck more than intent executed a perfect landing, the strange thing was at the time I think back I wasn't all that worried. Before we jumped we were all given a number and a small receiver so we could take instructions from the ground, unfortunately the second person refused to jump so the second person to jump was really number 3. the man on the ground didn't know this and kept calling to number 2 (not 3) to tack into the wind as they were heading to a river, thankfully he was ok. This was in the UK at Headcorn 1993.

Damn that last one I wanted to help him so bad

Kid: wants to go sky diving for their birthday. Parents: It is time. *edited while it still is saying the same thing*

Awwww, that Dust Devil wanted to play. SO CUTE^^

I will never watch this video, but I love you all for doing it!

Ok that is off the bucket list pfft.

As a recently licensed skydiver, I'm thankful to know that a few of these are not as scary as they look / could have been easily prevented, but others definitely send a chill down the spine.

Esto lo más increíble que mirado de todos los videos, muy profesionales, felicitaciones

about to go skydiving tomorrow so decided to watch this

I had my first and only parachute jump in 1986. It was a static line round canopy jump from 2,500ft. Just before I jumped I asked my jumpmaster if he ever had to use his reserve chute. He said something like "in over five hundred jumps I've never had to pull my reserve". After I jumped he went out. All I saw was his main chute floating free and a second reserve chute open. I jinxed the poor sob. He landed in the trees somewhere but he was ok.

I did a duo jump once. When we jumped, the first thing I thought of was "well, this was it. I'm going to die". I can't imagine the fear that poor old lady must have felt and the sheer guild and shock for that instructor...

I’m afraid of heights and now I’m surely convinced this is not for me 🤣

Hey lets go skydiving -great idea!

One of my brothers was a paratrooper in the army.He once said to me”Anybody jumping from a perfectly good plane without good reason,is a fkn idiot”

That round canopy caught in a thermal so he kept landing over and over happened at one of the drop zones I jumped at. Three of us were jumping either TU’s or Aero Conicals (this was back in the 70’s) and the wind picked up as we were landing. My friend went back up in the air a couple of times before collapsing her chute and I went up once but then got dragged across a runway and tore two rather large holes in my trousers…. but I at least knew to grab one of the risers and started pulling in one set of lines to get the canopy to deflate. But man… the laughter of my friends coupled with pain in my rear end really annoyed me because it grounded me from further jumps that day as the runway had caused friction burns through my almost new jumpsuit, my only pair of jeans there and my underwear before going through my skin as well. Had to sleep on my front for a while, I can tell you. Oh and the drive home was horrible too. 🥹

9:05 Imagine thinking you touched ground and your parachute is like yay that was fun let's do it again and drags you back into the air lol

I jumped at Omro Wi. in the early 90s and looking down at the power lines and highway before you get to the field where you land gave me a little anxiety.I found out the hard way that the ground is harder than the bones in my ankle.I got a nice ride to the hospital in an ambulance with 3 bones broke in my ankle and got the wind knocked out of me.Even after getting hurt you are still feeling high as a kite from the adrenaline.

I was expecting the last skydive gone wrong was "Skydiver jumps out of plane but forgot his parachute"...lol I used to handglide when I was a kid and I loved it. Cheers from Canada.

This was the motivation I needed . I'm gonna pick up an army man parachute toy at the super market this week.

Casually watching this video hours before my skydiving

I actually think the last one should have been number 1. Not knowing if your going to be dragged until your death is a scary realization.

0:46 that granny almost gave us the mother of all moons!

I witnessed someone come down under a failed chute in Italy whist driving on a parallel road to the landing zone. The speed they were travelling was alarming; shocking how fast free fall is. They disappeared behind some buildings from my perspective and despite looking I’ve never found out if they managed to save themselves at the last second; I really hope so! 😢

I actually have put skydiving on my reverse bucket list *things illl never do in my life

The narrator needs a serious lesson in anatomy. Your "arm" is not connected to your "spine"

Just did my 1st tandem jump. Getting ready to start my AFF!

For those who know and like the actor Lewis Collins - Bodie from The Professionals - he made parachute jumps at the same drop zone as Ronnie O'Brien. One day, he did a jump and had a very hard landing. He got up, picked up his parachute and walked back to the packing shed half a mile away to pack his parachute for another jump and it was only when he was packing his chute that he realized that he'd broken his leg! Lewis was every bit as hard as the characters he played and he never complained about the pain in his leg - even when it was broken!

“Projectory”?? Arm severed from spine??? Slow down chief...

10:00 Legend says the guy is still trying to take his indomitable parachute down to the ground and spitting the grass out of his mouth.

So happy I watched this after my dive

The first five are all over the Internet. The last two were awesome!

every year thousands of people die while driving, that doesn’t mean we should quit driving right? accidents happen in any place. be safe

The most exciting thing I've ever done..Static line, first jump over Wisconsin. The scariest part was climbing out of the Cessna and hanging on the wing support bar before letting go. 90 + knot winds and a bar too big to get your fingers around, you'd feel like you want to climb back in, but there's no turning back.. would do it again though 😊

I was not emotionally ready for this!

i may have a strange kind of humor but i really had to laugh at the last one when i noticed the video was on fast forward and the other guy tried to catch him and missed 😂

If the pilot is wearing a parachute, I'm not going.

I love how people sky dive from the clouds, it feels like heaven man.

In 2005/2006, at Dillingham Field on Oahu, a woman went for a tandem jump. Her "instructor" was a highly experienced gentleman in his 70s. On the way down, he had a heart attack and died. They landed on a reef if I remember correctly and the poor woman drowned. When I heard the news, it turned out the guy I was driving with had worked as a skydive instructor and knew the man who died. Very, very sad.

It's amazing with all that sky and no traffic jam and there are collisions!

This just secured that i will never sky dive

item #2 happened to me twice in 1975 when I tried skydiving in college. I was put out in the wrong spot and and was drifting toward some high voltage power lines. Had to turn and go over them and ended over a mile away. An hour walk back with one of those big Army surplus chutes. The other time I was headed right for a big stand of trees, but yanked my left control chord hard and hit the ground sideways and made 2 side flips. But I was ok.

Even though so many things can go wrong. It was the best experience ever

Well narrated. Right tone for the content shown.

Felt so bad on laughing at last one...

I was 21 when I attended a class.. the following day I was to do a static line jump but weather made it necessary to come back the following weekend... I totally chickened out and never did the jump... You know how there are things you regret in life or wish you had it to do over again?.... This isn't one of them. A month later the guy that had encouraged us to try it... broke both his ankles from a hard landing.

Great thumbnail! and bet the instructor enjoyed being on top of her! 😋

I did one jump. Years ago round 1992. A solo jump using round parachutes from about 2000 feet above a racecourse outside of dublin. 9 of us who worked at Microsoft did it and of the 9 - 2 were immediately taken to hospital :) Ones foot went into a rabbit hole breaking g the ankle and the other lifted his feet to avoid a fence and landed on his coccyx cracking some backbone discs

I WAS gonna go skydiving... WAS

keep in mind accidents like this do not occur very often, and if they do they usually don’t result in death. its kind of like cars people drive in cars an accident happens they usually survive it with minor injuries and very rarely die

Excelente diversión me encanta

Great rescue. Bad pre jump equipment check.

I've been skydiving before, goodness - thank God it was smooth, safe and ok!

It's good to know the pilots on that last video were okay. I rarely saw my pilots wearing a chute when I used to skydive

Yeah that’s definitely off my bucket list nowadays

Watching this again to regain my fear of skydiving

1:39 "he doesnt have enough time to correct his 'projectory'." Genius

good thing the lady didnt broke her spine after landing on her back, god damn t'was scary as hell.

I send this to my friends before they go :)

Huge Desert - Small Trailer - Hold my Beer...🤣

Going tomorrow! No clue why im watching this but here I am haha

Wondered how things ended with last one. At what point did that parachute give up and let that poor man rest. Great video

The only problem I had doing a tandem jump freefall was that I discovered that my stomach does NOT like weightlessness, so I was dry-heaving the whole way down. Kinda took some of the fun out of it, though I was (sort of) still able to enjoy the view. My New Years resolution: Be smarter this year, and take anti-puke meds before my next jump.

I don’t think I could ever go skydiving. I tried the indoor one once several years ago. I think the worst one on this list was the first clip. Can’t imagine not being strapped in correctly and having to hang on as much as possible. I think I would have had a stroke and a heart attack at the same time. I hope that lady was ok after that,

Little did the last guy know that with 1 jump, he'd get 13 landings.

Imagine being that group that can finally say. "For once we didnt have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane"

Thanks for cancelling my sky diving plans. Much appreciated!

Aww man I was hoping for some splat action. 🤪

sky diving and gone wrong is last two things i wanna hear lol

My brother and I went to Green County Airport in Georgia to see about learning to skydive many many moons ago. The first jump I saw was a woman making her first free fall jump. I watched her with the binoculars. And watched and watched. But there was no deployment of the chute. She had pulled the rip cord and turned it loose before all the pins came out and was desperately trying to grab the cord handle again. She finally deployed her reserve and got a full canopy at tree top level (the canopy was at tree top level not her). She was OK. She probably has nightmares about it some 45 years later. Me...I never jumped. That day spoiled my interest in taking up the sport.

I think it's funny that in this event where you're literally plummetting to your ultimate demise, everybody came to an agreement that you will only need ONE reserve parachute. I brought TWO reserve calculators to my freaking Thermo exams!

Removing Skydiving from my bucket list before it makes me kick the bucket.

I'm not gonna lie, #1 bout gave me a panic attack!

His arm was completely severed from his...SPINE?!

How the last perashooter is going to be smash by his perashoot amazing 😍 thanx

This is encouraging 😀