underneath the wing dock like that otherwise it s a free floating parachute. before the skydivers on the right can stabilize, the man on the left reapproaches row six. as he joins, he pulls down on the formation, amplifying the wave again. when the wave reaches the chutes on the right, they are pushed forward. as i come forward, the parachutes start collapsing like an accordion. that s when several people let go on that right side. the right row six wing was so far when they let go of him, his parachute flew across the front of the formation and turned back in the formation. his parachute did a 90-degree left turn and came right into the formation. the entire pyramid collapses, and two skydivers end up in a treacherous tangle. the unlucky man who gets wrapped up is brian scott s friend, allen gutshaw.
it was alan and he s one of my best friends in the world. i got right on it and started spiralling two of them. they were in a wrap. it kind of looked like a bi-plane. it was two parachutes like this together. chutes that are tangled can t function properly. now both sky divers spin out of control, 9,000 feet above the ground. and allen has another problem. the lines of the other man s chute are wrapped around his neck. it s what we re called a wrap. your parachute is open but someone else s parachute is wrapped around you. in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped and you, they need to go into free fall and that takes the tension off. falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free, but his parachute remains behind. its lines still wrapped around alan s neck. the parachute s line has
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wrapped around alan twice. when he cut away, the tension stayed on allen. the parachute was still partially opened and wrapped around alan so it was pulling those lines tight like a chinese finger trap. it sticks to you. with time running out and his neck constricted, alan has only one option, cut the other skydivers chute line but as he does that it causes another problem. once alan cut the first line, the other parachute started spinning. it was no longer in a flight configuration. one side was cut loose. more and more got cut loose. it s spinning more and more. now it s wrapping alan s parachute lines up into a coil. it was tieing a rope. alan is spinning out of control and time is running out. i didn t know if alan was going to make it. i had never seen anything that violent before. i knew we were getting pretty low. and we were right over the airport so i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he was going to go