Can I walk with you?,” he later told an Express-News reporter in 1987.Ĭonable walked with them to a parking lot, got in his pickup truck and drove past the police search. “Don’t be alarmed, but I just jumped from the tower with a parachute. Although laws prohibit their stunts, they like to jump form tall structures." Craig Chandler The 1989 Express-News caption reads: "John Pety, Kevin Bisang and Andy Smith (left to right) are down-to-earth guys with a love of high places and parachutes. Police swarmed the property as Conables stuffed his parachute into a garbage bag and approached a couple walking to their car. He landed on a parking lot fence, tearing his hand and parachute. He drifted for another 15 seconds, about 200 to 250 feet, to the bottom. On : 'Twilight' star sells 2 Austin-area homes, one bought from DIY Instagram influencersĬonables waited 3 seconds - about half the distance to the ground - before opening his parachute. According to a 1987 Express-News story, Conables gestured for quiet as startled onlookers watched him strap on his parachute and climb over the security bars at the Tower of the Americas. One of those jumpers was Dan Conables, an unemployed Hollywood stuntman. At least two parachuters floated down from the Tower of the Americas and escaped without arrest. Some daredevils weren’t deterred by San Antonio’s anti-parachuting law until certain renovations were made in recent years. It's no longer possible to jump from the Tower of the Americas due to recent renovations made to the observation deck. It’s also illegal to parachute, or attempt to parachute, from anywhere on the Tower of the Americas. San Antonio’s City Hall was furious and quickly moved to ban BASE jumping - a popular sport that began in the late 1970s and involved leaping from buildings, bridges and earth formations - from the Alamo City’s tallest structure.Ī 1985 city ordinance makes it unlawful to bring parachute equipment anywhere within the tower. The photo captions in this story say that a Andy Smith climbs over the railing of the HemisFair Tower in February, when he and friends parachuted to the park below. At the time, there was no law against parachuting off the tower.Ī Sunday, Express-News feature story about BASE jumpers. The charges were later rejected by the district attorney’s office because they hadn't actually committed a crime. The other was preparing to jump when he was caught. Two other jumpers - one from Boerne and the other from Houston - would be charged a month later with reckless conduct after one leaped from the tower with a parachute.
It was the first time someone had parachuted from what was then America’s tallest observation tower.
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