DULUTH, Minn. – A paratrooper with the U.S. Navy Leap Frog demonstration team was injured seriously in a bad landing at the annual Duluth Air Show. Thousands of people saw the accident: Two parachuters were doing a trick with their legs locked, but one didn’t unlock in time to land safely. The sailor was airlifted to a Duluth hospital. The Navy declined to release sailor’s name but said he was in stable albeit serious condition. The Leap Frog team cancelled its next jumps at the show, which continues through Sunday.
Unlocking too late. After letting go of a fellow jumper, the parachutist on the right struggles to right himself to the ground upright for landing but without enough attitude. An estimated 30,000 spectators witnessed the accident.
