Skydiver's parachute gets stuck on scoreboard at Virginia Tech spring game in harrowing scene

A skydiver astatine the Virginia Tech outpouring shot crippled was stranded midair aft his parachute got stuck connected the scoreboard during his descent successful a harrowing country Saturday astatine Lane Stadium.

The skydiver tried to steer toward the tract but was moving against the wind. The skydiver’s parachute got stuck connected the apical of the scoreboard, leaving him suspended successful midair and delaying the crippled arsenic exigency unit hustled to measurement in.

Emergency unit utilized a crane to region the skydiver from the scoreboard.  

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A assemblage watches the Virginia Tech Hokies play the Miami Hurricanes astatine Lane Stadium successful Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 22, 2025. (Ryan Hunt/Getty Images)

"We are grateful to study that the skydiver was safely secured and is presently stable. Our superior absorption remains connected their well-being," Virginia Tech posted connected societal media.

"We widen our sincere appreciation to the archetypal responders, lawsuit staff, and aesculapian unit for their swift, coordinated and nonrecreational response."

Virginia Tech shot is entering its archetypal play nether caput manager James Franklin.

The squad hired Franklin aft firing Brent Pry aft an 0-3 start. After firing Pry, the squad went 3-6, finishing 3-9 connected the season.

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Virginia Tech caput manager James Franklin (Ryan Hunt/Getty Images)

The Hokies went 10-4 successful 2016 and 9-4 successful 2017 but person mostly been a middling squad since then, finishing supra .500 conscionable doubly since the 2018 season.

Penn State fired Franklin past play aft 3 consecutive losses, a skid that ended with a 30-24 overtime nonaccomplishment to Oregon astatine home, and the squad ne'er bounced back.

The team’s 2nd nonaccomplishment came connected the road, erstwhile it mislaid 42-37 to UCLA, which entered the crippled astatine 0-4. The 3rd nonaccomplishment came successful a 22-21 decision to Northwestern astatine home, dropping Penn State to 3-3. Franklin was fired a time later. 

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John Rocovich, Timothy Sands, James Franklin and Whit Babcock clasp up a Virginia Tech jersey during a property league naming Franklin arsenic caput manager astatine Cassell Coliseum successful Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 19, 2025. (Brian Bishop/Imagn Images)

Franklin was mostly palmy astatine Penn State during the regular season, going 104-45, but helium was ne'er capable to triumph a nationalist championship. Franklin won the Rose Bowl successful 2022, the Cotton Bowl successful 2019 and the Fiesta Bowl successful 2017.

Dating backmost to Franklin’s 3 seasons at Vanderbilt, the seasoned manager is 8-7 successful vessel games. 

Franklin volition look to crook things astir astatine Virginia Tech.

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