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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 23, 2012 16:25:46 GMT 12
An Air Force serviceman was injured when a parachute jump went wrong in Muriwai last night. A 20-year-old man was taken by helicopter to North Shore Hospital from the accident site off Muriwai Rd at around 10.05pm. A Defence Force spokeswoman said the man was carrying out routine training when he landed awkwardly in the drop zone and rolled his ankle. He was expected to be discharged from hospital today, she said. Read more: www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6458675/Air-Force-parachute-training-goes-wrong |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 23, 2012 16:50:48 GMT 12
Not good to hear but it doesn't sound serious, or newsworthy. Worse things have happened, put it that way. I wish him luck in his recovery.
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Post by beagle on Feb 23, 2012 17:02:52 GMT 12
He wa sjust unlucky to land in a wee hole, whats so newsworthy of that.
Oh I had better ring 'The press", a bread crate bumped my legs and a small cut appeared but was fixed with a dora the exploer band aid.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 23, 2012 17:06:19 GMT 12
Nice photo though.
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Post by beagle on Feb 23, 2012 17:32:50 GMT 12
Jumping T-10 static lines by the looks
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 23, 2012 17:47:09 GMT 12
Blimey, they still have T-10s? I can see why the bloke in the photo is jumping out of the plane, all four engines have stopped!
I wonder if Lizzie Henderson was in the paper when she jumped and was nearly killed when she hit the hangar apex, her chute collapsed and she almost fell the distance to splat on the ground, had it not been for one nail left sticking out when the hangar was built that caught the canopy and saved her life. They had to get the firemen to get her down I heard. Now that is newsworthy. I don't know if it made it to the paper though, people were tough back then, especially Liz.
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Post by lesterpk on Feb 24, 2012 0:59:34 GMT 12
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Post by sqwark2k on Feb 24, 2012 22:17:00 GMT 12
Blimey! the AirForce were still working at 2200hrs??? What the?!
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Post by jonesy on Feb 25, 2012 0:47:25 GMT 12
Blimey! the AirForce were still working at 2200hrs??? What the?! Mustve been a typo. You know the press and their inaccuracies these days. Suprised they didnt go full hyperbole on this one like theyre prone to do... |
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Post by phil on Feb 25, 2012 7:08:18 GMT 12
Blimey! the AirForce were still working at 2200hrs??? What the?! I'm often still working at midnight. It's not that unusual! |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 25, 2012 11:58:11 GMT 12
What was even more surprising was a Dash 8 still cruising about at midnight last night. Intruder! The night belongs to freighters!
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 25, 2012 12:56:42 GMT 12
Dash 8? Q-300?
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 25, 2012 16:30:24 GMT 12
Same thing, yep.
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Post by ox on Feb 28, 2012 10:34:02 GMT 12
I wonder if Lizzie Henderson was in the paper when she jumped and was nearly killed when she hit the hangar apex, her chute collapsed and she almost fell the distance to splat on the ground, had it not been for one nail left sticking out when the hangar was built that caught the canopy and saved her life. Poor Lizzie, I was on duty crew that morning. The thing that saved her - being a small girl - probably was what caused her to drift that far. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 28, 2012 10:54:04 GMT 12
Yes indeed. I believe the PJI's should have given her some extra weight but forgot. She was very lucky not to have gone splat. I joined up with Lizzie, a great girl.
When I was based at Wheuapai one Saturday I was in my barrack room when there was an almighty wallop on the roof. I and about 20 other guys rushed out of barracks to find a young girl and her parachute sitting on the roof of our Vincent Block. Some of the guys had to help her down but she was ok thankfully. Another victim of drift.
In 1989 I also met a girl who was not Air Force but lived in Whenuapai village and she'd dopne a jump there and drifted and ended up in the sawmill nextdoor to the base!
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