KPTV 10 p.m. news snippet (with blooper at end) - 1999-10-23
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[0:01] arrested.
[0:01] >> I would do it again in a heartbeat.
[0:04] Dave,
[0:04] >> we are Americans. We are free. This is
[0:06] our park, too.
[0:08] >> It was the fourth jumper who didn't make
[0:10] it. A 60-year-old grandmother from
[0:12] Southern California who worked as a
[0:13] stunt woman. Her parachute never opened.
[0:16] Jan Davis was killed instantly.
[0:24] >> That's what we were afraid was going to
[0:25] happen.
[0:27] >> We're going to go. Hundreds watched,
[0:29] including her husband, who was also a
[0:31] jumper. He'd organized today's jumps and
[0:33] videotaped it all. Before the jumps
[0:35] began, Tom Sanders explained the love of
[0:38] the sport.
[0:38] >> Sound like we're crazy just flinging our
[0:40] bodies off of a cliff. You know, it does
[0:42] sound crazy, but for us, it's a diving
[0:44] board, and it's not that different from
[0:46] an Olympic diver diving off of a diving
[0:48] board at the Olympics and landing in
[0:50] water. Here, we can freef fall for 15
[0:51] seconds. It's too soon to know what went
[0:53] wrong, but Jan Davis had borrowed the
[0:55] parachute she used because she didn't
[0:57] want hers to be confiscated by park
[0:59] rangers who were waiting to arrest her.
[1:01] The one she borrowed had a cord on the
[1:04] leg instead of on her back as her own
[1:06] gear had.
[1:07] >> That may have contributed to some of the
[1:09] what what I've heard is a what call a
[1:12] hard pull. You try to pull and um it's
[1:16] difficult.
[1:18] The fifth jumper today hiked down after
[1:20] Davis was killed. Today's death was the
[1:23] sixth due to base jumping in Euseite
[1:25] since 1980. And Kim, remember these
[1:26] jumps today were organized to prove that
[1:29] j