harness fell down to the knees. when i went over the top of her just basically tried to pull the harness off of her. i didn t even conceive that happening. i ve been jumping a long time. you re a tough lady. there s no doubt about that. i was there those five minutes and nobody else was there. laverne is just thankful to walk away from her perilous plunge. and because it was caught on camera, future skydive instructors now have a visual to help prevent a situation like this from happening again. other people will learn from this. it s going to be indoctrinated into the learning instructing. when you become a tandem instructor, you will see this video. and if dennis has his way, he d like to take laverne up again and do it right. that s a big void in my career now, that i wasn t able to deliver what i know i can deliver. i really think that you can put a stamp on your legacy if you were to go again. but is laverne still game? who knows? i may do it again. coming up a spa
well, i put my life in the lord s hands. that s how i did it. the lord s and dennis , that is. and he kept saying hold on. and i said i m holding. it was definitely the longest five or six minutes of my life. longest canopy ride imaginable. he deserves a gold star. he s a lifesaver. caught on camera reunited members of laverne s skydive party to watch the video together. they recall the first time they saw it. i think every single one of us were in tears. it was like the most intense thing to watch. you could see her in the air and you didn t really realize what had actually happened until you saw that video. i couldn t believe that someone lived through that. dangling in a v almost all the way to the ground. i cried, too. couldn t help it. it was just so real that this happened right the same time as when i jumped. it s hard to believe it s me, but it is. nearly a year passes before a
once they get to the door, laverne s entire body tenses up. yeah, it was spooky when you get to the door. i got to the edge, and it was just hard for me. after a few moments of trying to pry her hands from the doorway, someone gives them a boost. laverne and dennis go tumbling through the sky. dennis tries to stabilize them, but something isn t right. i knew my top harness fell. i didn t know if it fell off, down or what, but i knew it slipped. that s all i knew. her jacket covers her face shielding her vision. i don t know what would have happened if i could have seen the shape i was in. probably was a blessing, actually. mcglynn has made more than 8,000 jumps and has never experienced anything like this. a nearby instructor is shooting the action. a desperate mcglynn hails him for help. i was aware of what was
online, and an overnight sensation is born. did you get injured based on the way you were hanging there? i just got a few bruises and a scraped knee. every channel, there would be aunt verne. jeannie your aunt verne is dangling from the sky. to think i ve lived a fairly normal, quiet life and then all of a sudden explodes. it s kind of exciting. laverne and dennis remain in contact. and after examining the video, he now knows what went wrong regarding laverne s loose harness. i overestimated laverne s physical abilities and underestimated her physical limitations. when we re sitting in the plane, they seemed to be tight. so as we got up and squatted down, that s when it was exposed they weren t as tight as they could have been. laverne s knees collapsed. in the door she ended up in the squatting position. when she was squatting down, the harness fell down to the knees. when i went over the top of her
the lord s and dennis , that is. and he kept saying hold on. and i said i m holding. it was definitely the longest five or six minutes of my life. longest canopy ride imaginable. he deserves a gold star. he s a lifesaver. caught on camera reunited members of laverne s sky dive party to watch the video together. they recall the first time they saw it. i think every single one of us were in tears. it was like the most intense thing to watch. you could see her in the air and you didn t really realize what had actually happened until you saw that video. i couldn t believe that someone lived through that. dangling in a v almost all the way to the ground. i cried, too. couldn t help it. it was just so real that this happened right the same time as when i jumped. it s hard to believe it s me, but it is. nearly a year passes before a family member posts the video