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jumper was part of 10 way. Witnesses say she cut away her main almost immediately but was seen struggling with the reserve until impact.
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Witnesses said that the jumper dropped a toggle during his flare.
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Jumper sent video to wife just before jump saying he was not going to pull.
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Two jumpers were tracking from an eight way but were too close to each other. This jumper's canopy is reported to have opened with line twists which caused the two of them to collide. The other jumper was injured but not fatally. This jumper spiraled to t
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Jumper was current and very experienced but canopy loading was 2-1. Witnesses reported that he misjudge a 180 turn and hit very hard. He's said to have been conscious but died later.
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Two jumpers under canopy collided. In both case the reserves seem to have opened ok but one jumper remained entangled in a main causing a hard turn. Jumper then landed on Highway and was stuck by car. It's unknown which killed him.
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Jumper was CRW coach for 2 way jump. Student, on bottom, had some sort of canopy problem but was told to dock anyway. Student then cut away and instructor was wrapped.
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Jumper was a Navy Leap Frog doing a demo. There are very few details about the incident
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After exit student seemed unresponsive. His aad opened his reserve and he had reasonable landing but was dead.
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There were very few details available. Jumper was very experienced and seems to have had a hard landing.
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Jumper is reported to have lost consciousness just after throwing out drogue and died shortly after landing. Female tandem passenger was reportedly able to walk afterwards but then taken to hospital.
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Jumper was seen opening and 5500 and cutting away at 4500.
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According to reports from a fellow jumper he was known to pitch without flaring. He was jumping a new Aura3 and was warned to flare before opening but did not do so and was reported to be flying fast when he pitched. His canopy was damaged on opening and
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Jumper was hospitalized on life support after serious injuries from low turn. He was removed from life support the next day.
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There is very little information available about this fatality. Two jumpers exited and when one got on the ground he had to look for the other, who was dead when he found him.
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Jumper was very experienced with many jumps over many years. He seems to have had problems on exit, opened about about 3500 feet according to some witnesses and landed in the water.
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Information on this incident is very sketchy. During a boogie canopy pilots were exiting over a mountain and flying down it and free flyers exiting at another spot. It seems the free flyers got out over the mountain and didn't have nearly as much altitude
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Jumper was from Mexico attending a "Pepe's Island Boogie Panama"
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Jumper was from Austria jumping at the FlajFlaj at Elsinore. He was very experienced but for some reason somehow initiated a low turn without enough altitude for a flare. Witnesses said he seemed to be having trouble with his slider on approach.
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This was a competition jump for the Australian National Parachuting Championship at Skydive Australia. Two jumpers opened in close vicinity. One cleared the lines but the other was entangled in both mains and was unable to get clear.
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AAD fired reserve but bad body position more than likely contributed to reserve turning until landing, which cause serious head injuries.
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This was the jumper's first solo jump. It's reported that his main didn't deploy and he opened his reserve low. He then landed in a small pond and drowned.
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Master Cpl Alfred Barr of Yorktown died during a SARS training jump. Unfortunately details are very sparse and only say "parachute accident."
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That's something I often wonder about. As a teenager in the 60s and early 70s we all hung around the Pastime Pizza Parlor in Marietta, Oh. Those who hadn't been kicked out yet were inside and the rest of us just sort of hung around outside and across the street in the big parking lot. There were versions of that in other towns. But you never see this anymore. It can't just be the Malls can it, they close at 10pm. I'm just curious what the current version of hanging out on weekend nights is.
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Quite a few actually. For a lot of people, especially the younger ones, it's that or sit around the Mall food court all evening.