To celebrate his birthday, he was parachuted but something failed, he fell at high speed and became paraplegic.

Last Sunday, Luisa María Jansajoy Peña decided to celebrate her 31st birthday by practicing extreme sport in the rural area of ​​Palmira, in the Valle del Cauca department. It was a parachute jump that went wrong and left him with a sequel for life.

Luisa María and a friend paid $ 177 each to take off from a plane with a parachute, accompanied by an instructor of Halcones Paracaidismo Cali. But something went wrong in the air, he says 90 Minutes News the husband of the victim, Óscar Taborda:

"They took off from a small plane that lasted 20 minutes in the air, while they were just above the place where we were, with our 6 year old daughter, they jumped off the parachute, first with Luisa María, her instructor, then with her friend She began to notice a big difference in the speed of the two parachutes, "he said.

The launch was 10,000 feet above sea level, with a normal descent to halfway up the road. But there was a technical error and the instructor with whom Luisa María had gone had to perform a risk maneuver in which the main and auxiliary parachutes (emergency) opened at the same time and were tangled .

They ended up going down at an unusual speed with the auxiliary parachute that did not open completely. She fell and felt severe pain and immediately stopped feeling her legs., according to her husband, told local media. What I did not know at that time was that the L1 vertebra was fractured.

She was immediately transferred to the Palma Real Clinic in Palmira, where she underwent a six-hour surgery which finally gave a discouraging diagnosis: permanent paraplegia.

Taborda says that the company did not take responsibility for this fact. While the legal representative of Cali's "Halcones Paracasismo" & # 39; says that it is going on with the insurer to take over the accident.

In addition, the authorities of the Valle del Cauca announced the investigation and the revision of the regulation of the different modes of air flights, seven incidents having been the subject of more than 3,000 displacements, according to the same source. The weather.