Midair skydiving videos are usually all about the view, not about someone hanging off the wing of the plane by a parachute line or two (or 11). Australia’s transport safety.
Midair skydiving videos are usually all about the view, not about someone hanging off the wing of the plane by a parachute line or two (or 11). Australia’s transport safety watchdog, however, has released dramatic footage from a Sept. 20 jump over Queensland’s Mission Beach, in which an experienced skydiver was dragged out of a Cessna Caravan when the handle of his reserve chute snagged on a wing flap, per ABC Australia. The incident occurred during an event involving large formation jumps from about 15,000 feet, with 17 skydivers on board for a planned 16-way formation.
Video from both the skydiver’s camera and from another mounted on the aircraft shows the reserve parachute deploying prematurely as he exits, yanking him out and leaving his canopy tangled on the tail section.
