We were doing a two plane shot with two 182's at Minier back around '81 or '82. I was in the second plane and going from the step.
The lead plane opened the door to spot and we all climbed out. Our que to go was the lead plane exiting. The base and hanger left followed by the guy facing backward on the step. Then the guy diving the door went out and.... he was wearing a well worn Shooby suit. The Shooby had a heavy webbing around the cuff and the suit had worn fabric around the webbing. Long story short the webbing caught on the step and the jumper was blowing in the wind at 10,500, just him and the pilot.
Me, I was still on the strip in the tail plane starting at the show. The jumper in the door was screaming at me to go, I finally did but the dive wasn't going to get together and I'd never seen what was going on above us.
Neither the pilot, plane or the jumper hanging from the step had a knife. They flew around for a while with the jumper in tow.
The pilot finally broke the glass on one of the instruments and used that to cut the webbing. As he described it he'd stabilize the plane, then lean out the door to cut some webbing and then go back in, level the plane and cut some more.
The jumper got down, the plane got down, we went drinking.
