Helping Him Achieve His Ambition — Mario V. Farina

I'm a parachute jump instructor. When Mr. Martin came wanting to jump, I felt he shouldn't do it. He was in his sixties and overweight. But he insisted. In training, he did poorly. On the plane, I worried about him. When he actually made the jump, he had done so by inadvertently disconnecting the main chute and the emergency one. He seemed doomed. But, was he? This story tells all!