| Description: [This appears to be incident 2, from Parachutist 10/98] A 1st jump S/L student had a malfunction that resulted in a spinning main, due to a bad exit with the main deploying under her arm. She was obersved to make some attempted to control the canopy, but the spin resumed at around 100 feet. The jumper took no action to deploy a reserve and the AAD fired, but the reserve did not deploy out of the container (under a fully inflated,spinning main there may not have been enough drag). She was found cyanotic at the scene. Her risers were disconnected, but only a few feet away, indicating that she may have cutaway just before impact. paramedics indicated unoficially that she showed signs of having had a heart attack. |