A girl coaching to skydive solo launched her parachute on the proper time and in an excellent location Monday however someway missed the deliberate touchdown spot, turning into entangled in energy strains in Lake Elsinore, stated Skydive Elsinore common supervisor and co-owner Josh Corridor.
“She mainly overflew the whole airport,” Corridor stated Monday afternoon. “Fortunately she’s high-quality; clearly it might have been loads worse.”
Riverside County firefighters rescued the lady dangling from energy strains on Corydon Highway — not removed from Cereal Avenue and the Skydive Elsinore enterprise — simply earlier than midday Monday, in keeping with a tweet from the Fireplace Division.
The ability strains had been reside when the lady turned caught, however Southern California Edison officers turned off the electrical energy in that space whereas firefighters labored to untangle the lady, stated Maggie De La Rosa, a spokesperson for Riverside County Fireplace. Nobody was injured within the rescue.
Corridor stated the lady, whom he declined to establish, was a part of the enterprise’ Accelerated Free Fall program, which trains college students to turn into licensed to skydive with out a tandem teacher. As the lady tried her first solo coaching dive Monday, one thing went incorrect after she launched the parachute.
Corridor stated she “couldn’t have been in a greater spot,” however one thing went awry when she wanted to steer herself towards an open space to land. He stated the parachute “opened correctly and was in excellent working order.”
“From what it feels like, she simply acquired confused,” Corridor stated. “She mainly flew her parachute into an space the place she shouldn’t.”
She’s “very fortunate she walked away mainly with out a scratch,” he added.
Corridor stated the coed skydiver was in good spirits.
He known as the incident “very uncommon,” noting that the enterprise makes greater than 100,000 flights a yr.
Corridor stated the incident is below investigation and that the corporate will launch extra info when doable.
