Teen's First Skydive Was Also Her Last

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Jeanna Triplicata, instructor Nick Esposito die in Georgia

Jeanna Triplicata's parents and siblings gathered to see the 18-year-old complete her first skydive on Sunday. They then watched from the ground in Thomaston, Ga., as Triplicata and veteran skydive instructor Nick Esposito somersaulted in the sky, a parachute spinning wildly behind them. "Upon exiting the aircraft, the primary parachute failed to open properly and went into a spin," Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore says, per CNN.

https://www.newser.com/story/293736/teens-first-skydive-ends-in-tragedy.html
 

hellomimi said:
What a way to go! That's the kind of exit I wish to have ~ doing something fun and exciting.
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I disagree. When your chute doesn’t open, it has to be a very sudden and terrifying event until you hit the ground. I made 2 jumps in the Marines and although there is some excitement, there is also some fear until you pull the chord and the chute opens, then you can enjoy the sites.
 
When my daughter was 18, she did her first skydive. I came along (on the ground, of course) to videotape it.

I had been hooked up on a Holter Monitor (24-hour heart monitor) the day before. When I turned it in the next day, I told the doctor to disregard anything that showed up from 2-3:30 p.m. on Saturday. I had an appointment with him the next week and he asked, "What the heck DID happen during that time???" Apparently, I was a "bit" agitated. Well, it's not every day your only child flings herself out of an airplane.

Thank goodness, she gave up that pastime soon after.
 
I'm so sorry for her, AND her family.

My 50 something older son jumped out of a perfectly good airplane recently and sent me the pictures after the fact. I was horrified.

When he was a "little daredevil" I was forever telling him he was going to break his neck. When he was about 3 yrs old he came in the house screaming bloody murder. His explanation was "I finally broke my neck". It's a durn good thing he's kept me laughing his whole life.
 
Butterfly said:
Anybody have any idea what went wrong that caused this? I read that the guy she was jumping with was an experienced instructor. Wouldn't he have checked the parachutes?
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I've never understood it myself.

I would think by now, in today's times, folding, packing, and technology would have eliminated any chance of chute failure, but I guess not.
 
hellomimi said:
What a way to go! That's the kind of exit I wish to have ~ doing something fun and exciting.
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Maybe a great exit for you, but I can’t even imagine what the family was experiencing watching their child fall to her death. 😢

One of my boys went skydiving a couple years ago. He had the grace and forethought to not tell me about it till after the fact, knowing I’d be frantic the entire time!
 
Too many young people have been dying. It's just so sad; I feel so bad for her family. May she and her instructor R.I.P. That being said, a couple of things in the article don't make sense to me. It says her family were gathered to watch her jump and that they watched as the parachute was "spinning wildly". Yet they didn't find out that she had died until hours later when they were waiting for her near the airport. If they were watching her, wouldn't they have known that something had gone wrong immediately and wouldn't they have wanted to find out the outcome immediately?
 

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