Skydive fall mum 'was pushed from plane'

A skydiver who plunged 914m when her parachute became tangled has claimed she was shoved out of the plane against her will.

Lareece Butler, 26, spiralled through the air and crashed into a field in front of spectators, including her boyfriend, during the incident in South Africa on Saturday.

Ms Butler suffered bruises, a broken leg and a concussion in the fall in King William's Town, in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.

Recovering in hospital, the mother-of-one reportedly told her mother she was forcibly pushed out of the plane by a skydiving instructor after refusing to jump.

"She told her mum she asked to return to the ground and said the plane even circled a second loop as she refused to go," Ms Butler's aunt Tessa Botha was quoted as saying in the Daily Mail.

"In the end she said they pushed her out the side — she said 'Mummy I didn't want to jump, they pushed me'."

The family said it would be taking legal action against the EP Skydiving Club over the incident.

But company spokesman Joos Vos rejected the family's claims, saying he had been to see Ms Butler in hospital and she told him she could not remember anything about the jump.

Ms Butler’s parachute had become tangled within seconds of exiting the aircraft, Mr Vos said.

"It should have all run smoothly but she exited the plane in an unusual and unstable position," he told The Sun.

"This caused the parachute leads to become entangled.

"Although the parachute did partially inflate, it was rotating and becoming more entangled as she dropped.

"She had been trained to use the emergency procedure but unfortunately she did not and instead fell towards the ground.

Doctors said Ms Butler, who remained in intensive care, was in a stable condition.