Texas teen Mackenzie Wethington, 16, survives 3,000 ft skydiving mishap

A teenager is recovering after a sky-dive given to her for her birthday went awry and saw her plummet 3,000 ft to the ground.

Mackenzie Wethington, 16, of Texas, is now in an Oklahoma hospital with a lacerated liver and kidney, broken teeth, and fractures in multiple vertebrae, ribs and her pelvis.

Her father, Joe Wethington, took her to the Pegasus Air Sports Centre in Chickasha, Oklahoma, on Monday as a birthday present.

They were told she would be doing a static line jump on her own. Static line jumps are usually suggested for novice skydivers as the cord is attached to both the plane and the sky diver and opens the parachute automatically.

Mr Wethington said things went wrong soon after Mackenzie jumped out of the 1958 Cessna plane.

“Her chute opens [and] she starts spinning,’’ he said.

He told the Today show that he watched on helplessly as she plummeted half a mile before slamming into the ground.

Mackenzie and Joe Wethington before Mackenzie's skydiving mishap.

An ambulance rushed her to the intensive care unit at Oklahoma University Medical Centre and she is now awake and breathing on her own.

"She’s a miracle," Mr Wethington said. "She’s a miracle child."

Bob Swainson, the owner of Pegasus Air Sports Centre, has blamed the teenager for the accident.

"Once all the training is over, and we’re happy with everything then, then we can go and make the dive, but she didn’t do what she was supposed to do," he said.

Survivor ... Mackenzie Wethington, 16, managed to survive a skydiving mishap a mile above the ground.