Why does the BPA mag (Skydive) not publish fatality/incident reports?

[Newbie 0]

I read both Skydiving and Parachutist. Every month, Parachutist publishes the fatality/incident reports and does a yearly safety awareness/incident report round up for the year, which i think is a very good way to continue thinking about and assessing the risk of what's going on. Even though the monthly fatality reports in Parachutist can be a little thin on the ground, it at least gives you some advice and makes you aware of risks/issues you may not have considered.
The BPA's mag has nothing like this. All we get is reports in the minutes papers, a separate handout, which is often nothing more than cursory description of what happened and numbers of non fatal incidents with nothing to be learned from them. Why does the BPA not publish a yearly fatality report and/or safety advice to go along with it?

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[riggerrob 643]

Probably for the same reason that Canadian Parachutist Magazine (CANPARA) does not publish accident reports: we have a small jumping community and are afraid that outside lawyers will use accident reports against us.

[spanky39154 0]

Read the minutes of the STC meetings not a full fatality report but does give some info and numbers regarding whats happened.

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