80-year-old in near-death skydiving incident - video
Published May 26 2012, 01:27 BST | By Greg Laing
An 80-year-old woman has been caught on video in a terrifying skydiving incident.The footage shows the pensioner, named Laverne, speaking confidently about her jump beforehand.
When asked why she has decided to go skydiving, Laverne says that she has wanted to do it "for 40 years", and declares confidently: "Today's the day!"
But things did not go to plan.
The woman suffered an attack of nerves as the moment to jump approached, and can be seen pushing against the sides of the plane to prevent the skydive from taking place.
Her instructor, however, pushes her out, at which point her harness comes loose.
She is then shown hurtling towards the ground, hanging out of her straps, at an estimated 120mph.
Fortunately it turns out okay, with Laverne landing shaken but safe.
Something's not right here. If you were responsible for almost killing a woman for pushing her out of a plane, would you go to the extent of editing it with music and everything?
May 29th 2012 at 5:48pm
Clearly fake
May 29th 2012 at 10:39am
haha at the backfat flapping
May 27th 2012 at 11:46am
No way should he have forced her to do it! clearly she didnt trust the instructor!
May 27th 2012 at 7:00am(+1 like)
At that stage it is better to make them jump, there would be no way to allow the other jumpers out of the plane, they encounter last minute nerves all the time, if she had not struggled and pushed against the other guy in the harness they jump would have gone fine but what she did risked killing herself and the the guy she was with. Very scary yeah, but she needed to trust the person she was harnessed to.
May 27th 2012 at 5:10am(+2 likes)