Friday Freakout: Skydivers Legs Get Caught Around Parachute Lines

Get your TEEM gear here: Forlicensing, usagepleasecontact and reference CS000436 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 wasnt salvageable and cut away albeit with outofsequence emergency procedures, but fortunately the reserve didn t get entangled with the main canopy. WHY DID IT HAPPEN Exhaustion In this jumpers 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 Deploying on His Back This jumper flipped from his belly to his back before