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80-year-old grandmother slips out of harness while skydiving

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    Laverne Everette survives skydiving accident

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And now for the horrifying video we have been promising you.

On an eighty year old grandmother -- -- midair nightmare.

Seen here desperately trying to cling on to her skydiving instructor after slipping out of her parachute harness reportedly pleading with him just seconds earlier.

Not to force her to jump.

You can judge for yourself -- Trace -- shows you the video and tells us the story Trace.

This got a mega happened a year ago but the videos just being released because now the FAA is investigating this and you'll see why the minute look.

Look -- Everett said she'd been wanted to skydive for the better part of ten years and if you look at are getting ready for this I mean she's excited about it.

She's taking pictures with family I mean she's down they're getting ready.

And the whole time she was all smiles she figured her eightieth birthday was the exact time to do this and so she was going for -- a plane takes -- but now.

Come back to make is I want to show you what happens when she's actually in the doorway.

Of the plane right the -- -- -- you can see she changes her mind she's grabbing on up top here her skydiver instructors pushing her around she's pushing back.

She's saying no no I don't wanna go and she pushes back candidates got -- heartbreaking to watch he keeps pulling her hand away this one out for fifteen seconds and then.

Boom out -- -- but you can tell right off the get go -- and they're not together.

She supposed to be strapped in harnessed indeed his chest she is dangling he -- the -- go early because clearly something is wrong the guy who's taking the pictures over there look at this.

She's dangling outside -- -- harness her sweater is even being pulled up by the hardest.

And her instructor is trying to grab -- -- this guy's helpless he can't do anything because he's so far away they try to get closed door she's dangling right there I mean that.

Is frightening to watch and she is still hundreds and hundreds of feet up in the air.

And now they're trying to hold onto her legs to keep bread because the instructors being pulled over he should be -- -- A straight up and down but now he's pulled over and the next trick is to figure out how in the world they -- They're still coming down at a very good clipped hundreds of feet off the ground and this thing.

Is going on now for the better part of 45 seconds they finally come in.

She lands but she lands very hard fortunately she's a tough old girl and didn't get hurt but listen to -- ever.

I do that I felt I had a rough landing I just held -- -- but that's -- he didn't I didn't like -- -- I -- -- did you know yourself in my position did that I can be hormone treated.

Men have you ever seen anything like that I mean here it is again -- she's just kind of dangling out there.

The FAA is investigating this parachute -- In northern California because they know this -- well for people have died sky -- there in the past three years.

And the FAA has already -- 900000.

Dollars in fines against this company because of violations and mechanical problems and this was one of -- -- -- very -- dungy.

Okay -- the part that's the most horrifying to me is when she's.

Really holding out of the door and it is like -- -- her being.

I mean that's like the international symbol for I don't want to.

And you have the right to refuse don't you it's not like what you -- -- you took somebody's and outlook.

-- she doesn't blame him though she says look you know I wanted to go and she clearly changed your mind -- -- doesn't blame him for pushing her out the door because she may now have another -- she was up there.

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