I couldn't agree more with you. I'm 38 and have 2 friends (50) who were
both paratroopers and even they both admit, this guy was an idiot. You can easily
see she didn't want to go. I can also see his straps around her looked loose.

So true! I froze first time I bungee-jumped. No help. No push. Just verbal encouragement. I finally left the platform -- under my own power. It IS staggering she was forced. Why? Because we can't know how we'll react under such "logic-countering" initial experiences. To coerce! Damn lucky she didn't have a heart attack! ~Charles Hedbring, programsteppe.com

Here's the deal. The time to decide you're not going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane .... is before you sign the Insurance Waiver and agree to get on the plane. The skydiving instructor has a duty to get everyone "out of the plane" safely. Unless the plane is sitting still over the drop zone (which only happens in cartoons) ... there is an implied consent that if you paid for the service, signed the waiver, took the lessons and got on the plane .... then you will leave that plane in a timely manner ... so as not to put any of the other passengers at risk when it's time for them to take the leap. Granny may have had second thoughts ..... but who in their right mind wouldn't have second thoughts about skydiving for the first time? At least her chute pak wasn't full of dirty laundry instead of a parachute ..... now THAT would be grounds for a lawsuit!