A teenager has celebrated her miraculous survival one year after she plunged 3,500 feet when her parachute became tangled during a skydive. Doctors said they had no idea how Makenzie Wethington, from Joshua, Texas, survived the fall in Chickasha, Oklahoma in January 2014. She was left with broken bones and a brain injury. 'A year ago, we wouldn't think I was gonna live, and now I'm here a year later,' she told NBCDFW. To mark the anniversary on Sunday, the 17-year-old, who is now walking again, returned to Oklahoma to meet and thank the emergency responders who helped save her life.
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Makenzie Wethington, now 17, jumped solo from a plane in January 2014 but her parachute became tangled, sending her plunging to the ground
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She suffered fractures to her pelvis, shoulder blade, ribs, spine and teeth and doctors said they had no idea how she survived the fall
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Within weeks, she was walking and she is now almost back to full health
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On the anniversary of the incident on Sunday, she returned to Oklahoma to reunite with the medical team who helped to save her life
Reunited: Texas teenager Makenzie Wethington returned to Chickasha, @placeholder on Sunday to meet the medical staff who treated her after she hit the ground during the botched skydive a year ago
In @placeholder, the legal age to sk-dive is 18 but Oklahoma allows 16-year-olds to jump with parental permission.