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Ouch at 130
alledan
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Zephyrhills, Florida-AP -- A 70-year-old man is recovering today in a Florida hospital after breaking both legs and sustaining other injuries in a parachuting accident.
Arch Deal's primary parachute failed yesterday after he jumped from a plane at 14-thousand 5-hundred feet. His backup parachute worked but he was injured because he made a turn too fast and too close to the ground.
It's nothing new to Deal.
The former T-V anchor survived a three-thousand-foot plunge into Cypress Gardens 27 years ago. In that instance, Deal's main and emergency parachutes became tangled and he fell at an estimated 130 miles-per-hour before a tree broke his fall.
Deal has been jumping for about 30 years has more than 55-hundred jumps.
Arch Deal's primary parachute failed yesterday after he jumped from a plane at 14-thousand 5-hundred feet. His backup parachute worked but he was injured because he made a turn too fast and too close to the ground.
It's nothing new to Deal.
The former T-V anchor survived a three-thousand-foot plunge into Cypress Gardens 27 years ago. In that instance, Deal's main and emergency parachutes became tangled and he fell at an estimated 130 miles-per-hour before a tree broke his fall.
Deal has been jumping for about 30 years has more than 55-hundred jumps.
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"It was like that when I got here".
Because it is FUN! I've jumped twice.......fantastic! You should try it.
Merc
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