The woman who fell from the sky, part 2
Lives Less Ordinary
BBC
4.6 • 814 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever.
Tony was Mexico's best precision skydiver and the first woman to join her country's army. She says she "belonged to the skies", and became a member of an elite team of performance skydivers called the Crazy Birds. She was prepared to sacrifice everything for her love of parachuting - until a jump went badly wrong.
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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. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Alex von Tundselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.9 | To all in camera light, but all illuminated, illuminated, illuminated. |
| 0:36.9 | It were some in seconds or minutes, no-seek-quant, but for a few illuminated, illuminated, it was in seconds or minutes, |
| 0:39.8 | no-seek-quant, but it was a few moments. |
| 0:43.2 | Everything was in slow motion and illuminated. |
| 0:49.9 | It was illuminated with this bright white light a few seconds or maybe minutes. |
| 0:58.5 | I don't know how long it really lasted, but it was the most beautiful, marvelous thing. |
| 1:07.0 | But suddenly, I felt a push, and this intense pain in my neck ripped me back to the reality. |
| 1:15.5 | This is Tony Osseigneur. She was Mexico's best precision skydiver and the first woman to ever enter the army. |
| 1:32.0 | She's fought hard all her life to live without limits. |
| 1:35.9 | And what a life it has been. |
| 1:38.1 | If you haven't listened to the first part of her story, please head back to that episode now. |
| 1:43.0 | The way Tony has carved opportunities, relentlessly, but also perhaps recklessly, is an important |
| 1:48.6 | part of what's to come now. |
| 1:50.9 | Because we pick up her story on a fitful night in February 1984. |
| 1:55.7 | The night before, it's fair to say, her most prestigious jump yet. |
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