DALLAS — It's a story that can only be described as miraculous: A 16-year-old girl falls 3,000 feet from a plane in a skydiving accident and lives to tell the tale.
North Texas teen Makenzie Wethington begged her parents to allow her to skydive as a 16th birthday present, reports Today.com. But during the Jan. 25 jump at a skydiving school in Chickasha, Oklahoma with her father, something went terribly wrong.
Makenzie's canopy malfunctioned and the first-time skydiver couldn't manage to deploy a reserve parachute. Her father, Joe Wethington, who had jumped ahead of her and was safely on the ground, was forced to live a parent's worst nightmare as he watched his daughter plummet two-thirds of a mile and land on the grass nearby.
“It’s not that I’ve never seen these incredible or miraculous cases in the past," said Dr. Seema R. Sikka, who is overseeing Makenzie’s care at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, at a news conference on Monday. "In her case it’s pretty incredible that she came out of this with injuries that she could heal from."
"She is doing well. She's had multiple traumas but actually has been staying in good spirits," said Sikka, who added that the hospital was still evaluating her injuries, which include damage to her liver and a broken pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, shoulder blade, several ribs and teeth.
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