The woman who fell from the sky, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving.

She was born into a conservative family, and decided to marry the first man who asked in order to escape the restrictions of home.

Her husband was a Mexican military officer with access to the planes used by elite paratroopers. With his help, Tony would sneak on board too, parachute strapped to her back. In love with jumping, she decided she needed to join the Mexican army herself, something no woman had done before.

Presenter: India Rakusen Producer: Louise Morris

The audio has been updated since first published for technical reasons

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the
0:23.2	most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:45.8	It was such a wonder to feel connected with the sky, with the air. With a freedom that I can't describe in words.
0:59.4	Flotando and sentir me one with a profound feeling.
1:05.6	Like being at one with everything.
1:13.5	I was kind of looking at myself
1:16.9	being there floating
1:19.4	and I knew
1:21.4	that this is the place where I belong.
1:25.7	That sensation
1:26.5	that so profound that I'm from where I belong.
1:49.6	You're listening to the voice of Maria Antonietta Osorneo, a woman whose spirit soars far above as all.
1:59.0	Because her life has spiraled around an insatiable passion for jumping from a plane, flying through the air and parachuting back to Earth.
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