Even Midair Skydiving Rescues Have Haters

The best part of skydiving, I’ve always found, is the possibility of hitting an airplane on the way down:

↵Katharina Wagner, 24, a veteran who had made more than 1,000 jumps, was caught by a gust and slammed shoulder-first into the fuselage of the airplane she leaped from Sunday afternoon.↵Fear not, however: She was rescued by another diver who managed to get her cord pulled in time to save her life, though she did hit a lamppost on the way down and injured three major limbs. Oh, and insult to literal, actual injury: Some dude on the ground halfway across the world says it wasn’t that big a deal.

↵John Hamilton, manager of operations for Skydive Elsinore in Southern California, said in an interview that veteran skydivers often train for this kind of scenario and unless the victim is spinning out of control it’s not that difficult of a maneuver.↵Don’t you wish you were cool like John Hamilton, reader?