Tow Jumper

SkyShark · Post by **SkyShark** » May 12th, 2005, 10:36 am

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ANGRYCivilian · Post by **ANGRYCivilian** » May 12th, 2005, 10:39 am

It looked like his chute was just hanging in the back and the air grabbed it and yanked his ass out.

centermass · Post by **centermass** » May 12th, 2005, 11:00 am

ANGRYCivilian wrote:It looked like his chute was just hanging in the back and the air grabbed it and yanked his ass out.

Seen it happen to one of my AJM's doing a door check while clearing the rear (ripcord grip snagged the leading edge of the door opening, the pilot chute went and so did he) while I was waiting for his thumbs up. I checked the rear for his canopy which was good and kept the operation moving by relocating his stick over to my side after I put mine out!

Had the LM contact the pilot who in turn made contact with the DZSO to get to him asap once he landed. He turned out okay but threw his back out from the inertia. There's a video that exists for a similar scenario that happened to a JM student the same way.

Did this guy make it? Hopefully, he cut away, deployed and got a full reserve.

Towedjmpr · Post by **Towedjmpr** » May 12th, 2005, 11:04 am

That shit sucked.

I feel from the right door of a 130 going into George DZ at NOE. When the pilot started the climb we hit an air pocket and I got tossed. Only about 3-4 secs before green light, but damn near shit myself.

msg_dman · Post by **msg_dman** » May 12th, 2005, 3:08 pm

That same scenario has casued the plane to crash in the past. The chute raps around the rear fin and the pilot can't properly steer it. One situation resulted in everyone bailing out of the plane before it crashed because of a chute opening just like that.