Skydiving is an adventurous sport.
It needs die-hard junkies and a good group of people who have the courage to attempt it and who would never gear up and set foot on a plane. There are many people who would never go skydiving in their lifetime.
One 30-year-old woman experienced a horrifying moment when she went parachuting in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. To her horror, her parachute did not deploy properly and she ended up lading in a stand of trees.
It’s unclear what exactly happened that led to the malfunction at Parachutisme Adrénaline.
She is lucky, that she plummeted nearly 5,000 feet at up to 109 miles per hour before crashing into a wooded area and did not die, though she is in the hospital, according to People.
The director of sports promotion for the U.S. Parachute Association, Nancy Koreen, explained that there are many steps that should be done to ensure proper deployment, especially under tricky circumstances.
Koreen said that true parachute malfunction is “extremely rare” and the term is “pretty vague and not often correct.” The parachute has to be deployed at the correct altitude, and there’s a backup parachute in case the main one malfunctions.
“To say none of the parachutes opened is probably misleading,” she said, according to CBC. “It’s not really the way the parachute works.”
Denis Demers saw the incident as he stood helplessly, and watched what could have very well been the female skydiver’s last moments on earth.
“It’s a miracle,” Demers said. “I don’t know how a person can survive a fall from an airplane like that.”
Another person expressed her fear over the scene she witnessed.
“We watched all the way to the end,” Océane Duplessis said. “We kept hoping something would happen. We were very worried. Very.”