I read this in a book and was wondering if it was true?
It said it was nonfiction and it was a book of quotes. I read some of them before. The book had funny stories like this.
There was an experienced parachute instructor. His pupils jumped off the place then the parachute instructor jumped off as well with a camera to record the moment. On the way down, he remembered he forgot his parachute.
Is this true?
The story is true. It occurred in North Carolina in 1987.
If this unfortunate incident was presented in a humorous manner, you probably read about it in the “Darwin Awards”. This volume mentions it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darwin-Awards-III-Stories-Humans/dp/0752860410
Note that it was not the instructor who forgot the parachute. Rather, it was the designated cameraman, “Ivan, an experienced parachutist with 800 jumps under his belt . . . .”
Ivan ” . . . attached the video camera to his helmet so that it would capture the entire day of instruction . . . .”
“When they reached the jump site, Ivan jumped from the back of the plane and filmed the student and instructor jumping from the front of the plane. A few heartbeats later, tape still running, Ivan realized that he had been so focused on filming the jump that he had forgotten to strap on his own parachute.”
The end was fatal.
(A separate sad story is occurred recently. http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/19647224.html )
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