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Lucky Granny 28-May-2012 At 1:38:33 PM sbm

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Just as screwed up was the fact the instructor physically forced her to jump even as she was saying no no and pushing away from the door. Does that happen often?

I found this thread on a skydiving forum talking about the many things the instructor did wrong:

"Thankfully, the 80 year old saved her own life by locking her arms around the main lift web. The instructor had his rating pulled by UPT and will not get it back. This looks exactly like the one in Georgia with the quad. Except that guy could not hold on and slipped right out."

On 28/05/2012 sliamese wrote:
>thats the same thing that happens with a lot of Austalian Standards approved
>fall arrest harnesses, you just fall out the back!!

This has apparently happened as the quote above mentioned, about the 'quad in Georgia': the guy was a paraplegic, couldn't hold on with his legs, and fell out the back of the harness to his death.