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From: nraoaoc@nmt.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Hang on Dude
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.095434.4039@nmt.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 09:54:34 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.140720.20871@eng.ufl.edu> <1990Nov17.003424.1117@athena.mit.edu> <1990Nov20.213144.10267@ifi.unizh.ch>
Reply-To: dbriggs@nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
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In article <1990Nov20.213144.10267@ifi.unizh.ch> cap@ifi.unizh.ch writes:
>In article <1990Nov17.003424.1117@athena.mit.edu> jnrees@athena.mit.edu
(Jim Rees) writes:
>>I believe something like this happened to a cameraman at one of the
>>recent Thai boogies.  He forgot to hook up the chest strap, and as the
>>last one out of a large tailgate on a large formation he was in a
>>steep track until his rig blew right off his back.
>
>Phewewewew - I nearly succeeded ending up in a similar situation
>[...] I had a totally wrong routing of the strap.

A friend of mine in fact did exactly that.  She had buckled the chest
strap, but somehow the webbing was not threaded through the buckle
correctly, and the chest mount altimeter obscured the misthread.
Friction held it in place, and she jumped it.  It came undone in
freefall, and scared the hell out of her.  She folded both arms across
her chest and (somehow) pulled her main.  It deployed normally and she
landed safely.  Still, it must have been a real eye opener!
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