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A friend convinced me to go skydiving — and I crashed and broke 52 bones
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October 16, 2023
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2:10Now PlayingA persuasive friend convinced Marina Kostina, a Chicago-based clinical hypnotherapist, to go skydiving on Father’s Day in 2022. When she decided to make the leap from 13,500 feet, Kostina, a Moscow native, had been struggling with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the rocky aftermath of a failed marriage. She also wanted to honor her father, who had passed away five years earlier, with the daredevil feat. NY Post Senior News Features Writer Joshua Rhett Miller shares this story.
Since she was a novice, Kostina, then 49, performed a tandem jump while attached to an instructor at Skydive Midwest in Sturtevant, Wisconsin.
The duo’s parachute deployed, but 20 or 30 feet from the ground, they lost control and crashed.
Kostina broke dozens of bones and had ghastly wounds to her face.
“I couldn’t move, I couldn’t walk … I was between death and life for three and a half days,” she told The Post. “I had 42 [broken bones] in my face and 10 in various places throughout my body: two vertebrae, ribs, hip and my left arm.”
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