Skydiver reunited with prosthetic leg after it landed in lumberyard after jump

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Skydiver reunited with prosthetic leg after it landed in lumberyard after jump
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Dion Callaway, 39, plans to skydive again this weekend.

Workers at a lumber mill found Dion Callaway's prosthetic leg, which flew off during a skydiving accident. By Jacob Bogage Jacob Bogage National sports writer and blogger Email Bio Follow April 23 at 1:44 PM Dion Callaway lost his left leg in a skydiving accident two years ago. He lost its replacement on Sunday.

So he opted to have his leg amputated below the knee, and then he resumed skydiving as soon as he could. Callaway, jumping with three friends, pushed away from them in midair to try to track the trajectory of his prosthesis, but he lost track.For four hours afterward on one foot and crutches, he peered through vineyards that flank the Russian River in Cloverdale, Calif., the heart of the state’s wine country. No luck.His leg had blown a half mile south of the airport into a lumber mill, where a worker found it and — after checking the area — turned it over to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Today we got a strange call of a found prosthetic leg at a Cloverdale lumber yard. The deputy gathered the intact leg,...

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