If anyone hears how the skydiver is... Please post.

[polsongrizz]

I posted it on the MB board

http://www.maroonblood.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=471" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thank you very much... :thumb: :clap:

 

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Anyone else hear any "rumors" about this guys state tonight?


I got a text awhile ago and would like to verify the info.

 

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

http://www.maroonblood.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=471" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[peterc]

Peter C here...(unofficially) Blaine Wright, the Silvertip Skydiver, was badly injured with a fractured pelvis, and I believe a broken bone in his arm or leg, along with internal injuries. He was flown to Harborview Medical Center after being seen at St. Patrick Hospital. You can hear comments by University Executive VP Jim Foley on our KGVO1290.com website. Our prayers go out to Mr. Wright, who has provided hundreds of wonderful moments as a Silvertip Skydiver. One of his friends told me after the game...that they wouldn't be surprised to see Blaine jump again after he recovers. We wish him the very best!

 

[grizchamp]

I have video of it.........deciding if I should post it or not.

Oh save your comments I dont care what any of you think I will do whatever I want to regardless of what any of you say.

I need a good laugh, so if you don't post it, email it to me.

Are you FREAKING SERIOUS - You need a good laugh about a skydiver who may be in Very Serious condition! There is definately something very wrong with you!

:whocares: The only one I'm worried about is the girl. HE is a first class dick.

I don't know the guy, but I can tell you Polson that you won't get very far with thoughts like that here. I felt the same way about Barry Andersen, the guy who made Monte famous and all it did was get me banned under my original name here and I never said an untruthful thing about that waste of oxygen. I get your frustration. It sucks when someone you think is a first class dick is loved by people who can't see beyond the one thing they see every Saturday. I hope this guy is ok, but only because I personally have nothing to judge him negatively on.

 

[EverettGriz]

Peter C here...(unofficially) Blaine Wright, the Silvertip Skydiver, was badly injured with a fractured pelvis, and I believe a broken bone in his arm or leg, along with internal injuries. He was flown to Harborview Medical Center after being seen at St. Patrick Hospital. You can hear comments by University Executive VP Jim Foley on our KGVO1290.com website. Our prayers go out to Mr. Wright, who has provided hundreds of wonderful moments as a Silvertip Skydiver. One of his friends told me after the game...that they wouldn't be surprised to see Blaine jump again after he recovers. We wish him the very best!

Thanks Peter. As you said, our prayers are with Blaine.


And some of you have seiours issues. Seek professional help.

 

[GrizLA]

http://missoulian.com/news/local/skydiver-injured-at-griz-game-flown-to-seattle/article_54fac6ac-0262-11e1-8164-001cc4c002e0.html

A member of the Silvertip Skydivers was blown off target during his descent into Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Saturday, then clipped a tree before crashing down onto a cement sidewalk just outside the stadium.

Blaine Wright, a veteran skydiver, was taken to St. Patrick Hospital immediately after the crash and later flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with serious injuries, including a fractured pelvis. The crash occurred just before the 1:05 p.m. kickoff of the Montana-Weber State football game.

Witnesses to the incident said Wright appeared to realize that he was not going to make it into the stadium as he descended in gusty winds, and turned back to try to land on the lawn just outside the southeast corner of the stadium.

The witnesses said his feet clipped a tree before he landed on his back on a cement wall along the sidewalk, then rolled onto the sidewalk itself.

"You could hear bones pop," said J.R. Garcia, who was tailgating in an RV and had stepped outside to watch the three skydivers. "He tried to land here (on the lawn), but the parachute picked him up and he landed right at our feet."

Wright, the first of the three Silvertip skydivers, was knocked unconscious, but had his eyes open and was talking with paramedics before he was immobilized on a backboard, placed on a stretcher and whisked away by ambulance.

A young girl standing on the sidewalk was knocked over after Wright landed and was screaming that her leg was in pain, the witnesses said, but was checked by paramedics and didn't require hospitalization.

Don Lakow of the Silvertip Skydivers said Wright knew he couldn't make his target and deliberately turned to avoid landing in the stadium crowd and injuring spectators.

"He apparently wasn't going to make it over the stadium wall, and to avoid the risk to hitting someone in the stands, he turned around," said Lakow, who monitors wind conditions in the stadium for the jumpers.

Emily Brandon, who was also in the tailgate party, said she called 9-1-1 and that help arrived "almost immediately."

"I talked with them, got a couple of sentences out and then they put me on hold, probably because everybody else was calling, too," she said.

***

The witnesses said that winds in the Hellgate Canyon, which can be very unpredictable, were strong and gusting. Crystal Lake, a weather technician with the National Weather Service in Missoula, said a 12:52 p.m. reading at the Missoula International Airport showed winds at 18 mph and gusting.

"But especially in the Hellgate Canyon, they have much stronger gusts," she said. "It's going to be kind of squirrelly out there."

Flags above the stadium were whipping strongly most of the morning, and at 1:20 p.m. were showing gusts blowing to the northeast, which would have had the skydivers parachuting almost directly into the wind.

Lakow said the skydiving club, which has had a decades-long relationship with UM, tracks wind conditions from an instrument on top of the stadium pressbox. At the time of the jump, those conditions seemed amenable.

However, he said, wind conditions just above the stadium were apparently erratic, a fact that he, the skydivers and the plane's pilot could not have known.

The skydivers, not UM, decide whether to make a jump on any given Saturday, according to UM athletic director Jim O'Day.

O'Day answered a question about that issue on Facebook. The question was posted on Sept. 21.

"This decision is made by the skydivers," O'Day wrote. "Since the east side expansion in Washington-Grizzly Stadium was completed a few years ago, there is now less room for error for their entrance into the field as it has created additional air pockets and wind tunnels. Thus, anytime the wind is gusting at 8 mph or more, it is likely the jumps will be canceled. The skydivers have access to wind gauges in the plane and at the airport for safety purposes."

Reached by phone during the game, O'Day said he was in the locker room with the Grizzly football team at the time of the jump and didn't witness the incident.

Lakow said Saturday's incident was the first mishap in the history of the club's jumps for Grizzly football games.

Lakow said Wright has been jumping with the Silvertip Skydivers for 37 years.

"He's a top-notch jumper," he said.

Reporter Jamie Kelly can be reached at 523-5254 or at [email protected].



Read more: http://missoulian.com/news/local/skydiver-injured-at-griz-game-flown-to-seattle/article_54fac6ac-0262-11e1-8164-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1cDYRPqoM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No, this is not the first incident..just the first in many years....I sat with my room mate for hours trying to cheer him up after a disastrous jump into the old Dornblaser....really sad....I hope this guy recovers both physically and mentally...it is a devastating accident with lots of pain...really bad....

 

[jh]

I recall once, maybe in the late 90's, where a Silvertip skydiver on their first jump into Washington-Grizzly missed and landed on top of the stadium pressbox. I don't remember hearing of any injury.

I don't know Blaine, but I hope for a full and speedy recovery.

Also suspect that this will make them take a hard look a jump conditions. I've seen them call off jumps on days that had better conditions than today's. With what was said in the article about how much more difficult it is to jump into the stadium now, makes you wonder if they will continue to jump at all.

jh

 

[Grizaholic16]

I recall once, maybe in the late 90's, where a Silvertip skydiver on their first jump into Washington-Grizzly missed and landed on top of the stadium pressbox. I don't remember hearing of any injury.

I don't know Blaine, but I hope for a full and speedy recovery.

Also suspect that this will make them take a hard look a jump conditions. I've seen them call off jumps on days that had better conditions than today's. With what was said in the article about how much more difficult it is to jump into the stadium now, makes you wonder if they will continue to jump at all.

jh

A skydiver also landed on the adam's center roof a few years back.

 

[PolsonGrizFan]

Please don't confuse me with, or the comments made by polsongrizz. We just have similar names on here. Thanks.
With that, I noticed when Blaine was parachuting down that he turned, faced the wind (west) and just hovered over the stadium, trying to lose altitude I presume, something I've never seen him do in watching him jump for years. It was then I knew he was in trouble. It was not fun to watch. Get well soon Blaine.

 

[TheBud]

Missoulian Video:

[youtube]http://missoulian.com/skydiver-at-griz-vs-weber/youtube_b8c60486-0289-11e1-b58e-001cc4c002e0.html[/youtube]
http://missoulian.com/skydiver-at-griz-vs-weber/youtube_b8c60486-0289-11e1-b58e-001cc4c002e0.html

 

[fencer24]

I was sitting in my seats (sec. 108) and watched Blaine hanging with no forward momentum at all as well. I assumed he was checking the winds, since they seemed screwier than normal, but when he was turning to enter the stadium, I knew that he was too low. Looked like he was trying to turn out of the stadium, then had to avoid the flagpoles, turned North, realized he was going into the trees, flared, and because of his forward momentum, he swung too far up, so that his chute was vertical, while he was parallel to the ground.
My wife was coming out of the motorhome just as he fell onto the concrete wall, and then bounced onto the sidewalk. There were lots of kids playing football on the slope, and Blaine managed to miss all but the one girl sitting on the concrete wall, but she was not hurt bad apparently. My wife still has PTSD from watching the skydiver land right in front of her.
The fact that he is still alive after falling approximately 20 feet and landing on his back is a testament to modern medicine.

 

[TheBud]

Here is a better video of the crash:

(after their brief commercial...)
http://www.kpax.com/videoplayer/ifr...t=328&hide_ads=0&category_id=636&&iframe=true

Check out the picture at the bottom:
http://www.kpax.com/news/skydiver-suffers-broken-bones-at-griz-game/#

 

[yellowstone60]

three successful surgeries, still in ICU.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/injured-griz-game-skydiver-undergoes-surgeries-remains-in-icu/article_27137040-0677-11e1-b3eb-001cc4c03286.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;