Friday Freakout: Skydiver’s Legs Get Caught Around Parachute Lines

Get your TEEM gear here: For licensing/usage please contact licensing@ and reference CS-000436 ___________________________________ *WHAT HAPPENED* While doing a hop ’n pop from 3,500 feet out of what looks like a REALLY cool helicopter, this jumper – for some reason – decided to deploy while on his back. Whoops. The deployment resulted in a mess with his leg going through his lines. After fighting this for a very long time, he finally realized it wasn’t salvageable and cut away – albeit with out-of-sequence emergency procedures, but fortunately the reserve didn’t get entangled with the main canopy. *WHY DID IT HAPPEN* Exhaustion In this jumper’s own words, he “had 8 jumps in two days with no sleep, (then) traveled to another dropzone to jump the 9th and… was so sleepy and tired (that he) even had a nap (on the way to altitude.)” Deploying on His Back This jumper flipped from his belly to his back before