Archive for Thursday, June 4, 2009
Jon Roberts released from California hospital
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Jon Roberts
Steamboat Springs — Steamboat Springs City Manager Jon Roberts was released from a California hospital Thursday.
"He's still doing really well," LeAnn Roberts said from Jon's hospital room at Loma Linda University Medical Center shortly before her husband's release. The Roberts hope to fly back to Colorado this weekend and return to Steamboat next week, city spokeswoman Lauren Mooney wrote in an e-mail Thursday afternoon.
Roberts next must complete physical therapy. He was injured in a Memorial Day weekend skydiving accident when he was unable to locate the rip cord for his main and reserve parachutes. The reserve parachute eventually deployed high enough for Roberts to land safely, but he nearly hit a building and became tangled in TV antennae above it. His parachute collapsed, and he fell about 30 feet to the ground and tore his thoracic aorta.
"The investigation of the equipment showed that everything was correctly packed, maintained and working properly," Dan Brosky-Chenfeld, general manager of Perris Valley Skydiving, wrote in an e-mail. "The 'pilot chute,' the deployment device for the main parachute, was still in the pocket. The reserve rip cord also (was) in the proper place. We don't know why Jon had a problem pulling them."
The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting its own investigation of the accident. An update on that investigation was not available Thursday.
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