Australian accident investigators have released dramatic images showing a skydiver's parachute entangled on an airplane's tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet.

Australian accident investigators have released dramatic images showing a skydiver’s parachute entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet.

  • ephrin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    Yeah I’m guessing the pilot chute or handle got caught on something in the way out the door?

    • SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.worldEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      Ferguson was leaving the plane when the ripcord of his reserve chute became snagged on a wing flap, the report said.

      The chute released and immediately jerked Fergson backward. He knocked the camera operator clear from the plane and into a free fall. Ferguson’s legs then struck the trail’s horizontal stabilizer before the chute tangled around it and left him dangling.

      Why guess when you could read the article?