Pilot Cut Entangled Parachute Rigging From Landing Gear
Allowing Diver To Use Reserve Chute
Disaster was avoided in Germany Thursday after a quick-thinking
(and acting) pilot left the controls of his aircraft to untangle
the lines of a skydiver who had become entangled in the landing
gear after exiting the aircraft.
Air National Guardsmen from 129th Rescue Wing launched a
search-and rescue-mission from Moffett Airfield the afternoon of
July 16 to save a fisherman experiencing a medical emergency aboard
a Canadian fishing boat off the coast of California.
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