Air Force commando crashes to ground while rappelling from 170-foot ceiling at UTSA game – New York Post

Air Force commando crashes to ground while rappelling from 170-foot ceiling at UTSA game  New York Post

An Air Force service member died after falling from the Alamodome rafters during a fast-rope demonstration at a UTSA game in San Antonio. An Air Force commando fell dozens of feet in front of tens of thousands of horrified football fans while rappelling from the rafters before the University of Texas-San Antonio football game Saturday. The unnamed airman slammed into the turf at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, during a pregame military demonstration at the “Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans” game against Navy. Video shared on social media captured the terrifying fall as the service member lost control and slipped down the line during a fast-rope demonstration involving four military servicemen — while fans could be heard screaming in the background.

Medical officials rushed onto the field and treated the airman for about 10 minutes as UTSA staff members formed a semicircle around him before he was taken away on a stretcher, the San Antonio Express-News reported. The airman was taken the local hospital in critical condition. His condition was not immediately clear on Sunday. “Everybody was quiet, the band stopped performing. Everybody was dead silent,” Adrian Corey, who witnessed the fall, told KSAT. The Post has reached out to the Air Force and the San Antonio Police Department. The demonstration had been scheduled as part of the