Blake Hall
According to authorities, a British Army Sergeant stands accused of “intentionally sabotaging his wife’s parachute and back-up parachute” right before they went skydiving last month.
Thankfully, she lived and somehow escaped with only a few broken bones.
The woman — Victoria Cilliers, 39, was not a novice in the game of jumping out of planes. She was, however, recently separated from her terrible husband Emile Cilliers, who just might’ve jumped his last.
The Telegraph has more:
Vital parts of the parachute known as slinks were found to be missing after the incident at Netheravon airfield on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. The slinks, or soft links, connect the canopy to the parachute harness, but were found to be missing from the parachutes. Without them a parachute cannot function properly.
Police have said it was a miracle Mrs Cilliers survived. The experienced skydiver jumped from a Cessna Caravan light aircraft at 4,000ft and deployed her first parachute at 3,000ft. Sections did not unfold and she was sent into a spin, known as “going down the plughole”.
She pulled her reserve chute, but that also malfunctioned. She was able to slow her descent and avoid a road, but still hit a field at an estimated 30mph.
The not-so-mastermindy Emile Cilliers reportedly checked out an Army parachute for his wife the day prior to the jump. British police he planned the whole plot in advance. Thusly, he’s been charged with attempted murder.
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