Very Lucky man

[tomahawk6]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/14/npara14.xml

A LT in the Irish Guards had a potentially fatal parachute malfunction. The story is an account of one very lucky soldier.

 

[OldChap]

I was told only to do tandem jumps with my orderly so he could do all that kind of pulling and opening-type business. Obviously the same advice is not dished out in the Irish Guards.

Chippies in bearskins...

All due respect to the man, though. Kept his wits about him in about as high a pressure situation as one could find himself in.

 

[Bob_the_bulletproof]

Lucky indeed, a girl almost bounced when i was doing my first few jumps for more or less the same reason.

Bad posture, it's a killer.

 

[RCSignals]

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Adventure training is meant to have an element of risk built into it so the activity is challenging an exciting, but this was a bit excessive."

Gee, you think?