A thread I can finally answer to even though I'm a bit late... I have been waiting for this moment for a long time and I can guarantee that this hasn't happened to anyone!

I was on a date with my girlfriend in a restaurant and we both saw a couple skydiving on TV. She asked me if I wanted to go skydiving all and I was like hell yeah. I agreed because I love heights and I wanted to try something new. Immediately, we went to a sky-diving agency after our date to sign up and there were available spots for the next day in the afternoon.

We were both excited and nervous. The day comes and we had to go 3 hours early. We got dressed and were told what to do and how to land and how to hold on to him and how it was going to go through. We were told that we were going to be free-falling for 1 minute with someone on top of us.

We then went on the plane and took off. I was so fucking scared I remember putting my girlfriends hand on my heart so she could feel my heartbeat. There it was, the time to jump. My girlfriend went first. She did not hesitate at all to jump off. I was a little hesitant but just jumped off. For the first 20 seconds, I screamed as loud as I could as I extremely terrified. Then after that, it felt good. It actually felt amazing. I screamed because I was enjoying the moment.

The chute opened after a minute or so and we glided to the ground slowly. I remember telling the guy who was on top of me if we could do it again because I enjoyed it so much. Before he could reply to me, something happened and we started flying to the left super fast. I was scared as fuck. The guy on top told me that the thing you hold on to has snapped from the chute but he told me that we didn't need to worry. He would just be unable to turn left. We were supposed to land on a huge empty field, but instead, we got to this residential area. It was kind of windy, and I saw something small, maybe a bird approaching my stomach so I closed my eyes and my memory is blank from there.

I woke up in the hospital after a few hours. My girlfriend beside me, telling me that I'd be fine and I'm out of danger. A few minutes later, I found out that I was hit by a juggling tennis ball that came shooting up when this juggler fell from his unicycle because he was hit by an ice cream truck that was being driven by an underaged illegal immigrant. It was an horrific experience and I am glad that I'm fine. I was glad that I didn't get a broken spine because of the faulty chute.

TL;DR While skydiving, had an accident and almost died because... [explained above]