Lost my friend Harry Parrish at West Point Skydiving in VA in 2009 when a student pulled Harry's reserve handle on climb out. His reserve pulled him into the plane's tail, causing head and neck trauma . Rescue found him the next day hanging from a tree about 3 miles from the DZ. Blue skies my friend 😢

@montyheat4829

6 жыл бұрын

Voo Doo1 God rest his soul

@voodoo1449

6 жыл бұрын

Carroll Heatley....Thanks man, miss him all the time. It's an inherently dangerous sport, and we do what we can to minimize the risks, that said, everytime the aircraft leaves the ground I wonder "are my friends going to make it down safely on this jump, am I ?" And we keep going up!! 🤔

@montyheat4829

6 жыл бұрын

Voo Doo1 yeah I plan on doing my first tandom dive next month, I'm very excited, I know the risk but what's the use in living if you don't have fun while your living

@saltytsp

6 жыл бұрын

Voo Doo1 RIP Harry Parrish. Sorry you lost your buddy. Remember the good times.......

@sudhanvamahamuni3191

6 жыл бұрын

Voo Doo1 RIP to your friend

I love how even after this epic flub when the student deploys his chute the jump master still looks up to check if the student has got a good chute. What a rock star!!!

quality choice of music!!... Wheres my main?. Wheres my main?. Wheeeerrrrrres wheres my main!!!!???? :D

@256ttucker

6 жыл бұрын

fred bear sounds like he's saying mind to me.

@Megamain6

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Tucker it's called a joke

@tomkirkland9437

5 жыл бұрын

Omg that Tom tucker is such a idiot

@warrantdivision6575

5 жыл бұрын

Simon Murphy straight over his head. LOL

@duufun8461

5 жыл бұрын

Whooooosh Is appropriate guys don't need to be jerkoffs

Hahahaha! Your expression when you were trying to understand "WTF is going on here?" is just priceless!

I like how calm the instructor is and how professionally they all reacted!

the look on his face is priceless. i dont sky dive but i would imagine youd need to have a certain sense of humor and calmness like this guy does in order to do it as an instructor. after watching a few of these videos it seems like the most dangerous variable of all is just jumping with a beginner lol

lifetime beer supply

I love the look on his face, 'where did my chute go? I know that I just opened it.'

For those of you confused at what happened--the student accidentally pulls the cutaway handle at 0:18 This cutaway device is used in the event you have a malfunction with your primary shoot (rips, gets entangled, etc.). It causes the primary to "cutaway" leaving you only with your reserve.

@flybeep1661

5 жыл бұрын

So essentially you're explaining the exact same thing the description does? Why??

@henryk8675309

5 жыл бұрын

Just to show people the time stamp for when the incident occurs. Happens really quickly and is easily missed. I missed it the first time through. I saw comments asking what happened and just figured I'd respond.

@chdmorrison

5 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it. Was confused

@themikeroberts

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, thanks! The time stamp helped me figure out what was going on. I figured the guy in street clothes was the student cause usually in sports, the pros are dressed better than the amatures so I had no clue what was going on until I saw your time stamp. At 1:46, the instructor releases something from his hand and it flies away. What is that?

@henryk8675309

5 жыл бұрын

The pilot chute (~12-18in). This drags open the main canopy--which in this case meant dragging it right off his body. Ironically enough, he actually reaches for his cutaway handle around 1:56-2:12 because he knows something went wrong with his main. That's when he realizes that it's already been deployed. He then checks to make sure the main canopy was properly ejected and then pulls his reserve. At 2:22 he is looking up and praying that the line isn't tangled--because there is f**k all he can do about it at this point. At 2:25 he is thinking "What the actual f**k". And at 2:40 it's all starting to make sense. Terrifying, fast, and hilarious in hindsight.

he must be a trained pickpocket.. perfect timing and illusion of unintentional movement

Wow. That’s so spooky. Glad you made it down safe. I’m considering getting my AFF certification. If I do I’ll be sure to keep my hands out where I can see them and not flail. I would feel awful if I accidentally cause this kind of danger to someone.

This song just works with every epic movie ending and intense videos. A true classic

I am not a parachutist. I had to watch that video about 5 times until I understood what happened. Thanks for the explanation.

Dude didn't even notice the flailing cutaway handle and gives the other instructor a thumbs-up.

LOL he's like WTF ???

At about 1 minute exactly, the airstream completely takes away the cut away pad and attached cable from the instructors kit. At 40 seconds, the other camera angle shows best when the student actually pulled it. So the other instructor probably never saw the pad flapping around because his camera was likely mounted on his helmet which is higher than his line of sight from his own eyes, so we can see it on the video but he couldn't. After one minute no one could have seen anything as it was completely gone.

The final shot is hilarious... LOL!

Thats why he is master jumper.. He knows what happened and what to do.. I LOVE THIS.

Hi, It seems legit and maybe he felt embarrassed.. You guys (at the school) might wanna call him and ask him to come back and tell him no hard feelings...it happens to the best of us. Thats why its called school..(To learn) if we all know everything, then there will be No Need for schools... Hopefully he will come back. Great video Bruh.

@alienxyt

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and nothing to be ashamed of. Good exit, good stable freefall.

Happened to someone I was with on a load once whose cutaway pad got dislodged on exit. It’s a really confusing ‘malfunction’ as obviously the main leaves the pack as soon as the pilot chute is thrown with the confusion being going for the cut away pad (if that’s your choice of Emergency Procedure) and it isn’t there so no red silver option. A high speed malfunction requires immediate attention especially for those who pull at 2500 or even lower 😬 Nothing to do but pull silver. Had he had an RSL on his system the reserve would have deployed with the main canopy being the pilot chute in a situation like that. Wonder how many beers it cost the guy .😊

@jefe_costa

3 жыл бұрын

That's it!

@frazzledazzlem1921

2 жыл бұрын

@@jefe_costa go on... tell us! how many beers!?

@jordanhanson-flores2433

10 ай бұрын

Not quite. If it was a MARD the main would act as a PC. A standard RSL only uses the main to pull the pin

@paulywarly6977

10 ай бұрын

@@jordanhanson-flores2433 fair point

@isakhammer6558

8 ай бұрын

Did the instructor jump without RSL?

The "Where the hell is my cutaway handle?" moment would be the worst.

That's why one is none, two is one!

Was he close friends with your wife? :P

crazy film - i love it - and my fave band - and i may start skydiving - i feel good!!!!!!

Coolest man on the Planet saw the Jump with the student through.

The shot of his main is priceless.

the dude with the white shirt has the best slow mo face ever.

@el90skid32

3 жыл бұрын

TRUMP 2020 the shadow makes it look like that

@Jake_Hynds

3 жыл бұрын

Flappy face

Wow I haven't seen that one before. Awesome footage!

the song selection is just so good :D

Terminal reserve deployment...fun!! I thought the other instructor would have pointed it out in case you took it down to 2000' but maybe he couldn't see the handle flopping around from his side of the student.

@DrRawBalls_TheDummy

3 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing he didn’t see it bc we only seen it bc we were looking for it and it was in slow motion

In the mid to late 1970's, I saw an instructor cause a student to have to pull his emergency chute. This student was the first one out. In position under the wing, the instructor signaled him to go. As the instructor reached to haul in the static line, now detached from the jumper's rig, there was nothing there. The instructor said loudly, "Oh my god, I forgot to hook him up". Then after a few tense seconds he said, "He's Ok". After struggling to get three dummy pulls in a row in order to move on to doing "hop-n-pops", where he opens his chute on his own, the skydiving club allowed this to count as his third, Ha!. I was next out, and was laser-focused on my static line as I moved to sit in the door prior to my jump. Another time, the plane did not have a peg coming out of the fuselage for the left foot. Instead, your pivoted out with your left foot on the right wheel. The pilot forgot to put on the brakes. As I grabbed the strut and pulled myself out of the plane, my left foot immediately caused the wheel to spin and I was hanging on the strut like a rag doll. My jumpmaster signaled for me to go and I went into my arch. Later a friend of mine asked how my arm was. I didn't know what he was talking about. He was incredulous. "Didn't you feel that?" He said he could hear my left arm hit the wheel. I had not gotten as far out from the plane as normal since my foot rolled off of the wheel. But I felt nothing and had no bruising later. The miracle of adrenalin.

The face expression at 2:13 says it all when he is pulling his reserve

its so funny to see the other instructor give him a thumbs up

Thought he was going to grab his main canopy on the way down lol

@drewcarter3100

3 жыл бұрын

Yeahh not a good idea 🤣

Really made me laugh! :)) I'm so happy he made it safe!

Waooww! Well done for the recovery!

I bet everybody was scrutinizing that video when they got down 😂 I would be. The dudes face was priceless when he looked up after pulling the main 👍🏻

Lol. This is a cool video I come back to every few years

legend

This is where an RSL is a nice thing to add to your rig, would have deployed the reserve right after the main is pulled.

@lefevrealban

3 жыл бұрын

Does the RSL trigger the reserve immediately when the cut away handle is pulled or only at the moment the main gets cut away? Because if it triggers it immediately, this could have been even more dangerous should the student have pulled on the handle while exiting.

@yrenyanar6754

3 жыл бұрын

@@lefevrealban the rsl is connected to one of the risers, when the 3 ring is completely unlocked and the risers 'leave' you, it would pull the reserve pin... so it would just continue the pull for the jumper in this case, from main to reserve, like a delayed deployment and he would just think, what? - wrong rig or why did the canopy change...

@windy6455

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about rsl but wouldn’t it be sketchy to have it deploy at that time while holding student without anyone prepared for it ?

So sad the student didn't come back... Glad you made it safely to the ground. Watching this I wonder if instructors shouldn't hold student's arms for the few firqt seconds out of the airplane. Anyone could react that way and grab a random thing for his first jump.

"where is my main..." 😂 Brilliant track choice 👍

I have no idea what I'm looking at, because I've never been skydiving. I just watched the whole video because I love that song. LOL

@szavvy2717

5 жыл бұрын

Watch the arm of the guy in black and yellow just after 0:20 and grabs the red guys cord and pulls it at 0:23 under the cameraman's (red guy) arm Then when he pulls his chute, the main wont be connected since the chute cord that was pulled was a breakaway in case it tangles or fails. He only had his reserve chute left.

@paolol7160

3 жыл бұрын

What happened? The main one dropped him! The first parachute gone! He has only one left!

The legend says he still wonder where is his main.

@jefe_costa

Жыл бұрын

HAHAH! The main was found... the free bag was lost forever.

So this is what happens if you cutaway before deploying? Good to know. :-D Just imagine the instructor swearing at the person packing the parachute before he found out what actually happened. :-)

STOP!!! WITH MY FEET IN THE AIR AND MY HEAD ON THE GROUND.

Oops! That was classic! Had no idea and the look on the dudes face is like what the f....k!

At 2:48 you can see his main, still in the deployment bag, floating down under its pilot chute.

@ocrim16

2 жыл бұрын

right into the swamp below... xD

@adamsvacek8506

2 жыл бұрын

i dont think thats main in deployment bag, looks more like reserve freebag with pilot chute

Siete veramente dei temerari..mi viene i brividi solamente a guardarvi.. complimenti raga . 👍👍👋😉

Personally, I liked the Basset-hound-with-his-head-out-the-car-window effect. Do you have any more like that?

@jumpmasterjm

3 жыл бұрын

I've had 5 terminal reserve deployments. The only one that hurt was the front mount 24' flat. (Two were test jumps).

Been there done that, except I instantly recognised what happened and started to swear, waved off and pulled my reserve. Almost lost my canopy in a thick swampy forest, took most of a week to get it back wasn't a happy camper at all.

@EtherealStrife

5 жыл бұрын

anonymous69 ...because he didn't know the cutaway was pulled. Hence the awkward looking around as he's waiting for his main to deploy, before he pulled reserve (no RSL, tsk tsk!). Even if he knew, SOP is to deploy reserve at your planned deployment altitude.

The first student on the next load after my third aff jump bounced but it made me decide to keep going rather than quit. He static lined (first jump) had a riser under his arm, panicked and pulled the duel cutaway while viciously still holding onto his slider - there were finger stretches all though it. Really sad stuff but life carries risks.

@jamestalbot1647

2 жыл бұрын

What does this mean for us non jumpers?

@richardmillward8200

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamestalbot1647 means he died bouncing off the earth like a basketball

@blueeyedredness

Жыл бұрын

Duel cutaway? Reserves don’t have a cutaway for that reason.

@jaffacalling53

Жыл бұрын

@@blueeyedredness Idk, static lines are weird I guess. There are many very good reasons to do AFF instead of static line to get your license.

@blueeyedredness

Жыл бұрын

@@jaffacalling53 no there is one cutaway handle and one reserve handle. People talk about skydiving all the time and have never been involved in the sport. It’s honestly amazing how many people try tell me about it until I finally call them out and let em know I have more than a couple hundred jumps and they are incorrect on about everything. This original post is a bunch of bs and not based on any real incident.

Hahaha reaction is priceless at the end

But, there are two more professionals.. xD they really didn't recognized? Haha poor dude.. seeing the canopy flying away xD

Question: I assume the Main just flies away after pulling the Pilot Chute out... In such a scenario (given that the RSL is working) would the reserve come right out after the main lis gone or would I still have to actively pull the reserve handle? (I'm an AFF student, dont freak out if the answer is obvious to you...)

@jefe_costa

2 жыл бұрын

Would come out if there's a RSL, but not! ;)

Lol my little brother did that exact same thing. That's how he earned his nickname, "Handle"

@jefe_costa

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah, awesome!

Looked like the jump went well - except for that annoying detail of getting the cut away handle pulled on exit!

Crikey…I held my breath for about two minutes

Awesome 🙏🙌

He only had 1 chance, he knew it and he handled it like a pro....Bravo !

@robertparks6115

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair he only started with two😂

@z9944x

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertparks6115 When Cutaway handle is pull (before Main deployement) the main is automatically Cutted away ( lost) when he pull.. 1:37 Look at him LET GO HIS MAIN (lost) and he deploy his reserve after looking up if he is secure...

@z9944x

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertparks6115 it look like 1 chance to me

Hi, someone answer my question please. At 2:50, why is the pilot chute not opening the main parachute?

@sergeig685

5 жыл бұрын

that's reserve pilot chute and freebag

Nice lil base jump there

Good music choice

The look of "oh no fuckin way..." definitely epic. Almost looked planned, like an aff instructor in training, and that's a stunt-noob.

Anyone know have the Time stamp the as to where he pulled it?

The main just went bye bye 😂😂😂

It flies away at the 1:00 point. 🤣 Student: "Uh, I didn't do it..."

Did he ever recover his lost parachute?

don't need no suit, don't need no chute

“Ironically”. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

That'll wake you up for sure!

*what a nightmare 0_0*

Wonder what was more confusing having no main above you at all or trying to figure out where his cutaway handle was.

love the music

Almost caught the free bay

I have a question as a new skydiver how the RSL didn’t eject his reserve canopy ??

@jefe_costa

4 ай бұрын

Because that rig doesn't have RSL. It's not mandatory for sport rigs, only student and tandem.

That had to be a huge adrenaline dump

ok im like 8 seconds in and I gotta say: ive seen nothing yet but what a great fucking choice for a song

I don't get it..the student wasnt close to his chute when the student pulled his ripcord. At what point does his cutaway handle get pulled? Is it now shown in the video?

@jefe_costa

6 жыл бұрын

Look at the student's left hand at 15''... he left the airplane and holds the jumpmaster's cutaway handle.

@michaelbeary

6 жыл бұрын

Jeferson Costa I see. Haha. As they were exiting, his hand just flew there and he was in a grabby kind of mood. I hope he wasn’t too upset.

was able to catch his main in mid air?

Cool under pressure

Any procedure supposed to be in place to prevent this?

@theginganinjaofficial

5 жыл бұрын

Guard your handles.

He was like where da fuck is my chute.... what the fuck is going on???

I've read all the comments but I'm still confused is the dude in the white shirt the one that lost his main?

@sporedenstore

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jefe_costa

6 жыл бұрын

Yes!

1:51 Pilot chute: - Freedom!

No RSL. Old school. I would have expected the main side instructor to have seen what happened and given him some sort of a heads up.

Stupid question, is there a cut away for your reserve?

@jefe_costa

2 жыл бұрын

We don't have stupid questions when skydiving, hahah! But no, there's no cutaway handle for the reserve.

You may have heard this a thousand times, but I need a follow up story on this!

@mattfuller3172

4 жыл бұрын

DysFUNctional Combat Vet please!!!!

@DrRawBalls_TheDummy

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t be lazy and go read the description

@ThatWTFGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrRawBalls_TheDummy my comment was made three years ago before they updated their description. Don’t be a Karen.

@peterwhitey4992

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThatWTFGuy - People aren't Karens, just because they don't please you.

@Xamerax

2 жыл бұрын

And a person isng lazy cuz they wrote a comment years before they updated the description…

I'm surprised no one is talking about the guy deploying a bad (yellow) canopy .

Same happened to me a long time ago when exiting plane with other skydiver.... :-/ Worked out OK, except for landing in field full of cow dung....

@yankees29

2 жыл бұрын

Must have been a fun walk out of that field! 🤣

I'm sure it wasnt intentional, but it sure as hell looked like it could have been.

What happens to a cutaway canopy are they hard to find afterwards

@billytrevathan6405

4 жыл бұрын

chose540 -Yes, they are usually hard to find. Could be in some trees or in a body of water, on someone’s house or backyard, etc.. Sometimes they are never found. A few thousand dollars, so there will be searching.

cool reaction.

He just watches the bag float away at the end.

I don't get how he succeeded to open his reserve ... Can anyone explain to me ? (I just have 4 jumps)

So new to skydiving, why didn't it deploy?

So, did the AAD save his life? Because it didn't look like he cutaway from the main chute.

Good luck trying to find that main. I would be pissed if i had been you. Your going to be walking around in the woods for days and still may never find it.

@peterwhitey4992

2 жыл бұрын

That comes with the job.

How do you even find your main after something like that?

@jefe_costa

7 жыл бұрын

What you mean? Where the canopy was after landing?

@jefe_costa

7 жыл бұрын

Normally people try to watch the spot where the main goes... this canopy was recovered in a few hours, on the trees. The free bag was not recovered.

@siboneyyy

5 жыл бұрын

You can see his main canopy flying next to him, still packed in the pod at the end of the vid

@rbarnard19

5 жыл бұрын

should have caught it mid air lol. I had a bag lock and cutaway and never found the chute after it​ was a very expensive cutaway.

@theginganinjaofficial

5 жыл бұрын

@@rbarnard19 pretty sure even 90% of seasoned (D licensed) will just watch where it lands and not try to catch. Reserve means 0 more lives, and it looked like it was deep in some woods/water area. Screw around trying to catch it too long and you will land in a less than ideal area already out of lives...

I'm making the assumption that, due to the few seconds lag between deploying the pilot shoot and pulling the reserve, the JM did not realize the student had pulled his cutaway handle until after the main detached.