NZFF

Yow - bare hands on metal at 16000' - probably left a tip for the pilot, so to speak

Yes indeed the pucker scale is off the chart, what's interesting, is the way that the Mainstream Media, has suddenly picked up on this viral YT video and reported it all over the world. This video even made it's way onto the TVNZ News a couple of nights ago.

What was not reported on the TVNZ News item report, was that the actual incident is not actually new News it's Old News.

It happen well over a year ago in South Africa during a October 2020 Skydiver Jump.

The video of the incident has only just been made publicly available in November 2021 on YT by Viral Hog who makes money off selling video clips to the World News Media outlets and it's been picked up on by all the World major News outlets to sensationalize and gone viral like it has done here in NZ.

Here's Juan Browne Blancolirio YT Channel explanation of the incident in his take of the Stall+Yaw = SPIN in the Twin King Air, Skydive Incident, which includes a break down of the actual Pilot report on what happened to cause the incident.



Here's another YT Video from a Jump Master Helmet Cam perspective of another similar incident.

Interesting viewing, and a point that has come up in discussions of the incident is that it’s possibly a VMCA occurrence as they probably reduce the power on the side that they jumping from and still having a load of power on the opposite side, causing what you see here.