When 47-year-old Joan Murray‘s parachute malfunctioned during her 36th dive, she plummeted toward death. But instead of ground, her body met an unexpected army of angry fire ants.
On Jan. 25, 1999, Joan Murray, an experienced skydiver and banker from the U.S., jumped from a small plane over South Carolina. But what she thought would be just another dive suddenly turned into something terrible. Right after she jumped, her main chute malfunctioned. She hurtled toward the ground from about 14,500 feet, reaching roughly 80 miles per hour with no working parachute.
