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Parachute center under investigation after safety mishap

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    FAA examining video to see if any laws were broken

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An eighty year old woman goes skydiving for her birthday problem is home video appears to show an instructor shoved her out of the plane.

And she almost fell out of her harness on the way back to earth now the feds are investigating.

Here's a video the FAA is now looking at first you see the tandem instructor that's the guy with the experience with the goggles and -- on.

He appears to pull the woman's hands off the door frame in order to get her out and then things get bizarre.

The woman appears to slip out of the safety harness which connects terror -- instructor and more importantly to the parachute.

Her legs are up in the air her back is exposed to consider -- -- there.

As the sky -- photographer filming this swoops in to try to help fortunately they all made it down a -- the woman is fine.

Now the owner about skydiving company has told a California paper that he thinks it's all overblown.

It's like talking about the Romans invading Palestine he says.

It is ancient history all the equipment worked great and everybody was fine and quote Trace Gallagher live with more -- Watch this this afternoon together on studio B and now there is more -- the story.

-- every -- I see the video amazed terrorists but yet the FAA is now launching a full scale investigation into this incident may have actually been out to the parachute center in northern California they have talked to the owner about what happened.

And in the next couple -- days they plan to talk to look Byrd ever the woman who jumped out of the plane.

As well as -- -- instructor to see exactly what was going on now we should know the FAA has a very long history with this company the parachute center.

They have proposed more than 900000.

Dollars in fines against this company for a series of violations.

That have nothing to do with this and sit right here but because they can't come to terms on a settlement agreement.

Now the FAA has turned this whole thing over to the US attorney's office and the US attorney will launch another investigation.

Harris -- well and it's interesting because this woman's finally put this Alpert had quite an -- there.

Yes -- -- she -- she does not blame the company she said look I've been looking forward to this jump for ten years and you could tell before she actually got on board the plane she was very excited now.

She admits that she did need a little -- to get out of the plane but she's glad she wet.

Once she started -- she said she could feel the heart has come -- shoulder and she couldn't really see because your sweater as you see there was.

Up all over her head but her instructor just kept telling her to hold on.

I do that I felt I had a rough blending I just held up let's let the he did -- electing I I kind of did you know yourself in my position did that I can be hormone treated.

Yeah she mentioned -- rough landing she actually scrape your knee and had some bruises and she says that she really wasn't scared during the fall but she was kinda scared when she goes back and looks at the video now Harris.

-- thank you -- not a former teammate of.

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