| Description | Subject: Is it really worth it?
My sister's friend, Laurie Kern, and her boyfriend, Matt Pratruba, were going to go skydiving on June 18th, 1996.
Laurie was 25 at the time and Matt was 26. They lived in Florissant, Missouri.
Laurie was having doubts, but Matt kept telling her "Everything's going to be fine! Don't you want to be able to tell people that you've been skydiving?" So they went and as soon as the plane got up high and Matt was about to jump off, the plane started making funny noises. All of a sudden, the plane just dropped like a rock. The pilot told the two to jump out and just do everything they would normally do as if the plane weren't crashing.
Matt and Laurie jumped out, and they pulled the string on their parachutes. Guess what happend. You got it; nothing happened.
Laurie and Matt died on that awful day.
I know that all of this is true because the pilot, Jeffrey McCormic, survived.
He watched as Matt and Laurie franticlly tried to pull their parachutes out. He watched in horror as they realized they were about to die. He prayed to God that his own life would be saved.
Since that day, Jeffrey has never flown another plane. Matt and Laurie's death can be found in the June 19th, 1996 Post Dispatch.
I beg you to take notice of this, especially if you're seriously thinking about skydiving, and think to yourself: Is it really worth it?
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