Say, I wonder if Felix will try for 25 miles next? I almost got sick watching that video.

And reading about the 16 yr old girl in OK who fell didn’t correct her parachute 3,000 ft up and wound up in the hospital and not actually killed by it. Her parachute did open but there was some type of malfunction which was correctable, and she evidently panicked.

cbsnews.com

Even though her father agreed to allow her to jump and was with her, he’s probably going to sue.

“I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.”

“Nancy Koreen, director of sport promotion at the Fredericksburg, Va.-based U.S. Parachute Association, said its safety requirements allow someone who is 16 to make a dive with parental consent, though some drop zones set the age higher.

“Robert Swainson, the owner and chief instructor at Pegasus Air Sports Center in Chickasha, defended the company Tuesday. He noted that the father went up with his daughter and was the first to jump.”

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to push your kids.