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(Dallas, TX) — A North Texas girl recalls her terrifying fall through open air when complications with her parachute caused it to malfunction.
“I remember getting in the plane and feeling that rush of excitement, and I remember jumping out the plane,” says says 16-year-old Makenzie Wethington.
Wethington says she was focused on fixing her parachute during last month’s plunge, but her efforts was not enough.
“I started kicking my feet
like I was taught in the class, but it still wasn’t fixing,” she said. “I was not strong enough to fight of the wind, so I just remember screaming and then I blacked out.”
The 16-year-old also says she eventually blacked out and woke up in an Oklahoma hospital three days later. She broke her ribs, hips, pelvis and had bleeding on the brain.
Wethington recovers in Dallas and has already begun her rehabilitation under the care of her doctors.
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