Friday Freakout: Skydiver’s Parachute Snags On Camera, Cutaway Helmet Slams Into Ground

Get your TEEM gear here: For licensing/usage please contact licensing@ and reference CS-000414 ___________________________________ *WHAT HAPPENED* This was an AFF-IE (AFF Instructor Examiner) jump where, from what we can tell, the simulated AFF student was making the student instructor work pretty darn hard! We’re not getting into that aspect of the jump – or about the untied shoelace – but the scary aspect of this jump was when the “student” deployed his main and his helmet/camera got stuck on the RDS slider. Fortunately he had a proper cutaway system on the helmet, so he cutaway the helmet before chopping the main canopy and landed safely. The helmet and canopy separated from the jumper, which provided a very interested POV as the camera helmet made its way down to the ground. It’s quite rare for a cut away helmet and camera to remain so stable – and pointed directly down at the ground– for the entire freefall to the ground. This