As a group of skydivers climb out of a helicopter to hang from the strut, one of the jumpers' chest strap is caught on the strut and she gets stuck hanging from the heli! Luckily there were other jumpers still inside the helicopter who could help her out (you're awesome Ted), and everyone stayed calm to solve the problem.

Heli jumps are super fun, but the safety briefings tend to be a little too brief and basic, and an incident like this might be one of those "you don't know until you know" situations. If this wasn't a scenario you'd previously considered, now you know and can remind other jumpers during the safety briefing before your next heli jump.

While making a left-hand landing pattern, Brian collides with another jumper who made an "S-turn" on her final approach. The end result is a very scary canopy collision, and her canopy (turquoise/green) fully collapsed at 100 feet, only partially re-inflating before impact. She was taken to the hospital and treated for a broken leg — luckily it didn't turn out worse, because a canopy collision at that altitude can be deadly.

I can't stress enough how important it is to fly a predictable landing pattern, stay alert and to keep your head on a swivel, but there are also other factors to consider that may lead up to an incident like this...

We try our best to create proper horizontal and vertical separation between groups when exiting the plane and at break-off, but once we’re under canopy there are choices we make that can either increase or decrease the separation we’ve created for safety during the skydive. If we all try to land in the same spot, or land close to the hangar because we don’t want to walk far, or spiral to get down faster, or don’t want to get our feet wet in the puddles or pond, then you might find yourself in a situation like this. There's LOTS of space in the sky and in the landing area (usually), so use it to your advantage for safe landings.

A paratrooper's reserve handle gets caught on the exit ramp, which rips him out of the plane in a flash. It hurts just watching this, but he did land safely — about 30 miles from their intended exit!

The same safety principles apply: check your gear and protect your handles.

There's just so much NOPE in this video, with a series of mistakes and poor decisions. A skydiver with only 115 jumps tries to "get the shot" filming his friend's deployment, but he loses altitude awareness (no audible?), which results in an AAD fire and a two-out. An off-DZ landing was inevitable and he had a few landing options available, but he opted to land on the roof of a house! Just like Santa.

It's important to recognize how a chain reaction of mistakes — being distracted by the camera, loss of altitude awareness, target fixation — can lead to a really bad situation like this.

On the bright side, at least he remembered to collapse his slider, right? 😉

If you can land safely after a cutaway that involves your reserve getting entangled with your main canopy and lines flying everywhere, I'd say thats' a good reason to crack a beer, change your underwear and call it a day.

This mess happened to my friend (aptly nicknamed) Mali. Not only did her reserve entangle with the main canopy, but once the reserve finally inflated, it was also entangled with her camera helmet. The helmet cutaway system didn't work, but she managed to release the helmet with the ratchets. The helmet remained caught on her lines and she landed on rear risers. Lost her GoPro, retrieved her main canopy from the lake, and luckily had another camera to capture this intense malfunction. All in all, that makes for one hell of an exciting Sunday.

Cat-like reflexes: 1, Wall strike: 0. The one and only Joe Nesbitt keeps his cool after a close call on a BASE jump.

If you're a camera flyer, pulling in place on a skydive with new jumpers may result in a canopy collision if they don't track far enough at break-off and pull high. Food for thought.

Well, it's more like the plane almost hit the skydiver. Either way, our friends at Team Skyscrapers had some underwear to change after this close call. Not cool.

My friend Felipe got himself into a sticky situation. While attempting to stall his canopy, it spins up and his hands get caught in tight line twists! Luckily his gloves didn't make the situation any worse — oh, wait. They did. Do you jump with gloves? Let us know in the comments.