The girl who plunged 3,500 to the earth's surface was on the tremendous mend when she spoke at a press conference at the Baylor Institute For Rehabilitation Thursday CBS News reported.
"I remember getting into the plane and feeling that rush of excitement, and I remember jumping out of the plane and looking up and seeing there was a complication with the parachute," Mackenzie Wethington said in a statement CBS News reported.
Wethington was first taken to the Oklahoma University Medical Center after her accident from a birthday skydiving leap Jan. 27 that fractured her pelvis, cracked her vertebrae, and caused internal bleeding CBS television station KTVT in Dallas Fort-Worth reported.
Makenzie was with her father Joseph with whom she took a class with before embarking on the endeavor, a first for both.
The two did a six hour training course prior to flying to a high altitude and jumping off into the air on the way to the ground.
Joe went first, and then monitored his daughter's turn while on land after a safe touch down.
Makenzie's parachute did not open all the way, and twisted together losing air KTVT reported.
Makenzie was already near the surface of the earth when she tried to draw back the parachute's backup chord KTVT reported.
"I started kicking my feet like I was taught in the class and I looked up and it still wasn't opening so I tried to pull the toggles apart but I just wasn't strong enough to fight off the wind," Wethington told CBS News.
"I just remember screaming and then I blacked out, and I don't remember anything after that until three days later," Wethington told CBS News.
