I suspect she had a line over malfunction. I had my second ever skydive last weekend with a static line like her and my parachute started spiralling like hers did. I had to cut it away and deploy reserve. It was only after I landed did I realise it was a line over malfunction and that I'd done the right thing by cutting away.
@ megahoofinroyal -According to the USPA website in 2010 there were and estimated 3 million jumps and 21 fatalities. Do some research, I can found stats on other things that are worse than skydiving. 1,197 people die each day from smoking related causes. 115 people die every day in auto accidents. In the US alone there are 1.5M heart attacks and 500K people die of them, and chances of being killed by lightning is 1 in a million, about as safe as skydiving.
Students are taught repeatedly what to do in situations like this. I remember we went through each malfunction and memorized what to do before my first jump. The minute she realized her parachute was not suitable for landing she should have cutaway and pulled her reserve. She would have had plenty of time for her reserve to deploy and would have walked away laughing and sighing at the same time. Poor girl...
@megahoofinroyal Where did you get your info from? Lol!! 500!? Hahaha! Im a skydiver with 300 jumps. Still here and hope one day to watch my grandchildren do their first jumps....
Of ALL the BPA (British Parachute Association) DropZones.... in the year 2011... there were ZERO fatalities, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of jumps.
The video here, this incident would be survivable if the person did what they got trained to do. Very sad incident.
@megahoofinroyal 500 is not correct. In the USA average number of skydiving deaths per year is 30-40. Worldwide, including USA, is 100-120 per year. To put that in perspective there are 40,000 deaths on the roads in the USA every year. Maybe driving should be banned. When I skydive the most dangerous thing I do is driving to the airport. Much higher risk of being killed driving. Of course I'm not serious about banning driving.
@av8rdav 40k US deaths from driving every year, but out of how many total drivers? 30-40 skydiving deaths, but how many individual skydivers in a year? Significantly less than drivers. Hundreds of millions less. Also, most people drive at least a couple of different times a day. How often to even the most avid skydivers skydive? Probably not the 700-1000 times a year the average person gets behind the wheel. Statistically, I would imagine if you factor everything, driving is safer.
@MegaFuncrusher Without digging up the stats I can tell you I had one friend killed skydiving. Auto accidents have killed 7 friends of mine in 7 different accidents. That's only going back to Feb 1994 when I learned to skydive. If I count auto accident deaths before that Feb 1994 then its more.
@av8rdav The only way you could make the claim that driving is more dangerous than skydiving is to compare the number of fatal attempts to the number of successful attempts, in both driving and skydiving. (Note that I'm not agreeing with megahoofinroyal ... I don't think skydiving should be banned. If someone wants to do something that risks only their own life, in exchange for an incredibly thrilling experience, more power to them. I won't even comment on his drivel about females.)
@rossmetacraft Skydiving is as safe as you make it. When I skydive I am 100% in control of the outcome. Not true about driving because there's always the "other driver" that is going to kill you.
@av8rdav Even if you are 100% in control of the outcome (which I say is impossible) the fact remains that you are human and therefore capable of making a mistake, and thus you cannot claim that skydiving is 100% safe. It's beside my point anyway ... which is that you cannot say skydiving is safer than driving based on fatality counts. You have to compare the relative number of attempts, and look at what ratio of those attempts end successfully versus unsuccessfully.
@rossmetacraft You are correct,Skydiving is not 100%.. but neither is just being a couch potato. However, your are told in your AFF class , right up front that YOU are the only person that can save your life! If you can not grasp this concept.. then don't get in the plane!
I've never seen anyone use a static line system at that high up but this looks like some other countrys millitary of posibly a civlian jumper but if I had that problem and I was spining like that I would pull my reserve as it should act as a break to the main but Im in the US millitary so I have a totaly different setup so it might not work for her.
@megahoofinroyal Nearly 40,000 people die in auto accidents every year in the U.S. It's statistically safer to jump out of a plane with a parachute than it is to drive, so we should ban driving too?
This video may save the life of another skydiver. If you are offended by the video, don't watch it. The word "Fatality" is clearly written in the title, so it would be easy to simply pass over this clip.
very sad considering she had way more then enough time to cut away, clear her main and get in the saddle under the reserve.. It is very import to pay attention and know your emergency procedures.. Decision altitude is 1500 NO LOWER!! if you pitch at 3500, in the saddle by 3000, that gives you 1000' to make a decision.. This was 100% avoidable.. and a very sad thing to see.. Blue skies
I am planning my first jump and AFF training starting at the end of Oct. I have been watching everything I can find and trying to see how others have handled problems. Very sad to see such a thing happen.
@barbara8512 Yes, I started jumping in late Oct. I have mixed some static line jumps in with my AFF. This is not all natural for me. So, every step is a bit of a challenge.
The crowd probably were reacting more than you realise on the video, also you can hear what i think to be alot of kids/young children.. Many people dont act scared and scream when they got kids as it scares them into a panic also. I dunno but i cant see everyone being totally relaxed about it. Also there was only about 2 seconds of video where it went totally wrong, after she cut the main.. The reaction probably got louder and worse after the ending of the vid. Anyway great vid.
@av8rdav immediately when she realized that something was wrong she should have been ready to pull the reserve, i dont know where this was, but that's what we get stressed the most, she should have pulled that shit 10 seconds into her chaotic spinning, so sad this happened
@av8rdav Possibly, however, there would be the risk of the reserve wrapping around the main and then having a 'big bag of washing'.... not good. If I had a malfunction below a thousand feet, I would do extactly that, deploy the reserve and hope for the best.
The girl here had plenty of altitude to perform a cut away and reserve but obviously lost altitude awareness, perhaps froze, who knows and made a fatal error. :(
@Nickodemusodurn in her postition she could have cut away, more than likely the main probably would have gotten yanked off and her reserve probably would have saved her life, even if the main didn't come off her foot, her reserve probably would have slowed HER down enough that the chute probably would have came off, at least she would have slowed down enough to probably survive, break a leg would have probably been the worst thing to happen, you learn to pull your reserve long before she did...
@Nickodemusodurn She should have cut away and deployed her reserve the instant she realised her main was malfunctioning.
She probably spent too long trying to fix it and by cutting away so low, she completely lost altitude awareness. A very sad incident.
Had a main canopy malfuntion a few years ago. Deployed at 3000 feet. Was about 1500 feet when my reserve fully opened..... a lot of height gone in the space of a few seconds.
@5kyd1vergav well actuly they use these kinds of videos to help other people know what not to do. if this video saves one persons life then bravo i know if it was my daughter i would want to help out as many people as i could
@5kyd1vergav actually, this video thaught me alot about jumping. You just don't realise the risk and the need for fast response unless you live it or see it happening in your face :(
This video is indeed sad, but this accident shows so many things about "how not to proced" and "what risks you are up to" that it must be seen.
The scariest thing about this: I experienced something very similar. After a botched exit during a clear & pull,I started to tumble, my left foot hung up on the risers, dislocating my knee. I was also was faced w/ a very dangerous likelihood of landing head 1st & breaking my neck. Thankfully, my foot cleared on my 1st attempt. I dreaded a landing in this condition under any parachute. I probably would have lost my leg under a round 28' reserve. Fortunately, I flared into a very soft landing.
@adamiosca she doesnt thats an optical illusion watch the video closely and take note on the direction of spin and if it changes direction again i bet it wont be at 1:40
Float Shape spin? If there is a problem with any of these cut that thing away!
Really sad incident, this could have been prevented. I was tought to observe float shape and spin after opening which should be no longer than 5sec after leaving aircraft, you have a problem with any of these, cut away immediatley!
@FlusherD12 could have been a line-over or a bad step-through malfunction, either way, if that canopy aint workin by 1,500ft, YOU MUST CUTAWAY AND DEPLOY YOUR RESERVE. STUDENT JUMPERS: THIS IS WHY YOU TEST YOUR CANOPY AFTER OPENING, FLARE, LEFT TURN, RIGHT TURN. IF IT DOES THAT PERFECTLY, IT'S LANDABLE, IF NOT, YOU BETTER CUT THAT THING AWAY AND PULL YOUR RESERVE! There is NO reason this jumper should have died
@specialkaye87 actually her foot was caught in a suspension line, you dont know what would have happened if she cut away. The best thing to do in this situation is try your hardest to get rid of the tangle, cut it if you can, take your shoe off and slip the line off. If you can't, pull your reserve and hope to get some more fabric overhead. Either way, this is a horrible possition to be in and you'de be lucky to live.
I suspect she had a line over malfunction. I had my second ever skydive last weekend with a static line like her and my parachute started spiralling like hers did. I had to cut it away and deploy reserve. It was only after I landed did I realise it was a line over malfunction and that I'd done the right thing by cutting away.
cjlitt03 2 weeks ago
Does anyone know if she using an SOS system?
camgon 1 month ago
@camgon It was a Vector II. Here's a link to the report on Dropzone.com.
dropzone.com/fatalities/Detailed/565.shtml
av8rdav 1 month ago
stupid bitch she would have lived if she dindt cut away so low, just land as is wtf
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@ megahoofinroyal -According to the USPA website in 2010 there were and estimated 3 million jumps and 21 fatalities. Do some research, I can found stats on other things that are worse than skydiving. 1,197 people die each day from smoking related causes. 115 people die every day in auto accidents. In the US alone there are 1.5M heart attacks and 500K people die of them, and chances of being killed by lightning is 1 in a million, about as safe as skydiving.
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Students are taught repeatedly what to do in situations like this. I remember we went through each malfunction and memorized what to do before my first jump. The minute she realized her parachute was not suitable for landing she should have cutaway and pulled her reserve. She would have had plenty of time for her reserve to deploy and would have walked away laughing and sighing at the same time. Poor girl...
toutsen 1 month ago
@megahoofinroyal Haha, there are less than 100 fatalities per year at registered drop zones worldwide.
dropzone dot com slash fatalities
You can view the database of fatalities there.
toutsen 1 month ago
@megahoofinroyal There are less than 100 deaths worldwide with millions of jumps logged each year.
dropzone dot com slash fatalities
Go there to see a database of fatalities.
toutsen 1 month ago
hearing you guys argue about whether skydiving should be illegal or not makes me think of weed. 0 deaths EVERY year and illegal.
HipHopaaDoodle 1 month ago
@megahoofinroyal Where did you get your info from? Lol!! 500!? Hahaha! Im a skydiver with 300 jumps. Still here and hope one day to watch my grandchildren do their first jumps....
Of ALL the BPA (British Parachute Association) DropZones.... in the year 2011... there were ZERO fatalities, and we're talking hundreds of thousands of jumps.
The video here, this incident would be survivable if the person did what they got trained to do. Very sad incident.
ScottishMarties 2 months ago
@megahoofinroyal 500 is not correct. In the USA average number of skydiving deaths per year is 30-40. Worldwide, including USA, is 100-120 per year. To put that in perspective there are 40,000 deaths on the roads in the USA every year. Maybe driving should be banned. When I skydive the most dangerous thing I do is driving to the airport. Much higher risk of being killed driving. Of course I'm not serious about banning driving.
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@av8rdav 40k US deaths from driving every year, but out of how many total drivers? 30-40 skydiving deaths, but how many individual skydivers in a year? Significantly less than drivers. Hundreds of millions less. Also, most people drive at least a couple of different times a day. How often to even the most avid skydivers skydive? Probably not the 700-1000 times a year the average person gets behind the wheel. Statistically, I would imagine if you factor everything, driving is safer.
MegaFuncrusher 2 months ago
@MegaFuncrusher Without digging up the stats I can tell you I had one friend killed skydiving. Auto accidents have killed 7 friends of mine in 7 different accidents. That's only going back to Feb 1994 when I learned to skydive. If I count auto accident deaths before that Feb 1994 then its more.
av8rdav 2 months ago
@av8rdav The only way you could make the claim that driving is more dangerous than skydiving is to compare the number of fatal attempts to the number of successful attempts, in both driving and skydiving. (Note that I'm not agreeing with megahoofinroyal ... I don't think skydiving should be banned. If someone wants to do something that risks only their own life, in exchange for an incredibly thrilling experience, more power to them. I won't even comment on his drivel about females.)
rossmetacraft 1 month ago
@rossmetacraft Skydiving is as safe as you make it. When I skydive I am 100% in control of the outcome. Not true about driving because there's always the "other driver" that is going to kill you.
av8rdav 1 month ago
@av8rdav Even if you are 100% in control of the outcome (which I say is impossible) the fact remains that you are human and therefore capable of making a mistake, and thus you cannot claim that skydiving is 100% safe. It's beside my point anyway ... which is that you cannot say skydiving is safer than driving based on fatality counts. You have to compare the relative number of attempts, and look at what ratio of those attempts end successfully versus unsuccessfully.
rossmetacraft 1 month ago
@rossmetacraft You are correct,Skydiving is not 100%.. but neither is just being a couch potato. However, your are told in your AFF class , right up front that YOU are the only person that can save your life! If you can not grasp this concept.. then don't get in the plane!
Bambadda 1 month ago
@Bambadda Yeah, very true ... not sure what that has to do with the point I'm making, though.
rossmetacraft 1 month ago
@rossmetacraft looking at the percentage of skydivers that die compared to the percentage of drivers that die, skydiving is safer
beardedswine 1 month ago
@beardedswine You have to look at the percentage of attempts, not participants.
rossmetacraft 1 month ago
@megahoofinroyal- 500 dead every year? Are you saying world wide? It seems you are likely clueless about skydiving. Banning it would be stupid....
MoonUnitAlpha 2 months ago
I've never seen anyone use a static line system at that high up but this looks like some other countrys millitary of posibly a civlian jumper but if I had that problem and I was spining like that I would pull my reserve as it should act as a break to the main but Im in the US millitary so I have a totaly different setup so it might not work for her.
MRseventenski 2 months ago
@megahoofinroyal Nearly 40,000 people die in auto accidents every year in the U.S. It's statistically safer to jump out of a plane with a parachute than it is to drive, so we should ban driving too?
pickles1979 2 months ago
@5kyd1vergav
This video may save the life of another skydiver. If you are offended by the video, don't watch it. The word "Fatality" is clearly written in the title, so it would be easy to simply pass over this clip.
irelevance 3 months ago
Terrible accident :(
.dropzone.com/fatalities/Detailed/565.shtml
davidatahiti 3 months ago
Oh my what a terrible incident
SHANzMANKILLZ 4 months ago
Holy shit! are you kidding me!! how was it smart in that jumpers mind to cut away at such a low alt? Holy shit.
Freeourmind 4 months ago
very sad considering she had way more then enough time to cut away, clear her main and get in the saddle under the reserve.. It is very import to pay attention and know your emergency procedures.. Decision altitude is 1500 NO LOWER!! if you pitch at 3500, in the saddle by 3000, that gives you 1000' to make a decision.. This was 100% avoidable.. and a very sad thing to see.. Blue skies
streeter795 4 months ago
RIP
jmcgre1 4 months ago
i'm guessing that stat doesn't count line twists on reserve that you can kick out of
beardedswine 4 months ago
My sixth jump was my first off of static line
RanHam335 5 months ago
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Yes! Great example of what to do...if you want to die ;-) Am I surprised she was a woman?
surfbum5412 5 months ago
I am planning my first jump and AFF training starting at the end of Oct. I have been watching everything I can find and trying to see how others have handled problems. Very sad to see such a thing happen.
ddthames 5 months ago
@ddthames if you learn how to do everything right your chance of a double mal is about 1 in 10 000 000. people don't need to die
beardedswine 4 months ago
@ddthames did you do your jump?
barbara8512 2 months ago
@barbara8512 Yes, I started jumping in late Oct. I have mixed some static line jumps in with my AFF. This is not all natural for me. So, every step is a bit of a challenge.
ddthames 2 months ago
The crowd probably were reacting more than you realise on the video, also you can hear what i think to be alot of kids/young children.. Many people dont act scared and scream when they got kids as it scares them into a panic also. I dunno but i cant see everyone being totally relaxed about it. Also there was only about 2 seconds of video where it went totally wrong, after she cut the main.. The reaction probably got louder and worse after the ending of the vid. Anyway great vid.
CarpMagic95 5 months ago
What should she have done? If her foot was stuck wouldnt pulling the reserve fuck it up more?
Nickodemusodurn 5 months ago
@Nickodemusodurn If she pulled the reserve and it fouled it still would have created a bit more drag. In that situation you've got nothing to lose.
av8rdav 5 months ago 9
@av8rdav immediately when she realized that something was wrong she should have been ready to pull the reserve, i dont know where this was, but that's what we get stressed the most, she should have pulled that shit 10 seconds into her chaotic spinning, so sad this happened
stealthmarine 4 months ago
@av8rdav Possibly, however, there would be the risk of the reserve wrapping around the main and then having a 'big bag of washing'.... not good. If I had a malfunction below a thousand feet, I would do extactly that, deploy the reserve and hope for the best.
The girl here had plenty of altitude to perform a cut away and reserve but obviously lost altitude awareness, perhaps froze, who knows and made a fatal error. :(
ScottishMarties 2 months ago
@Nickodemusodurn in her postition she could have cut away, more than likely the main probably would have gotten yanked off and her reserve probably would have saved her life, even if the main didn't come off her foot, her reserve probably would have slowed HER down enough that the chute probably would have came off, at least she would have slowed down enough to probably survive, break a leg would have probably been the worst thing to happen, you learn to pull your reserve long before she did...
stealthmarine 4 months ago
@stealthmarine
Yeah thanks for the reply, great point.
Nickodemusodurn 4 months ago
@Nickodemusodurn yeah, no problem!!! have you ever done a jump???
stealthmarine 3 months ago
@stealthmarine
Yeah you bet, only one mind you. Solo but with a drag chute to open the main right upon jump. Def wanna do more.
Nickodemusodurn 3 months ago
@Nickodemusodurn agreed! same there!!! well stay safe out there! dont want this to be a video of you
stealthmarine 3 months ago
@Nickodemusodurn She should have cut away and deployed her reserve the instant she realised her main was malfunctioning.
She probably spent too long trying to fix it and by cutting away so low, she completely lost altitude awareness. A very sad incident.
Had a main canopy malfuntion a few years ago. Deployed at 3000 feet. Was about 1500 feet when my reserve fully opened..... a lot of height gone in the space of a few seconds.
The girl could had survived this. :(
ScottishMarties 2 months ago
I find it weird that there was zero reaction from the crowd. The entire time.
xdaughertyx 5 months ago
rip
Bishop3011 5 months ago
my sympathy to the friends and family of this jumper but wtf why did he wait so fucking long to cut away
Rcslayer2k2 5 months ago
rest in peace.
rOOtVibeZ 6 months ago
@5kyd1vergav well actuly they use these kinds of videos to help other people know what not to do. if this video saves one persons life then bravo i know if it was my daughter i would want to help out as many people as i could
pmny119 6 months ago 14
@5kyd1vergav yet you still obviously looked for, found and watched this video...
adz2906 6 months ago
If she didn't chop her main, what would happen?
guitarhamster102 6 months ago
@guitarhamster102 she would have lived, but it would have not been pretty. I've seen people walk away from such spiral landings.
docrw 6 months ago
@5kyd1vergav actually, this video thaught me alot about jumping. You just don't realise the risk and the need for fast response unless you live it or see it happening in your face :(
This video is indeed sad, but this accident shows so many things about "how not to proced" and "what risks you are up to" that it must be seen.
KaelClout 6 months ago
Was better to land spinning than land straight.
DogsneedpIeasuretoo 6 months ago
holy fucking shit!!!!!!! RIP,
barinit 7 months ago
The scariest thing about this: I experienced something very similar. After a botched exit during a clear & pull,I started to tumble, my left foot hung up on the risers, dislocating my knee. I was also was faced w/ a very dangerous likelihood of landing head 1st & breaking my neck. Thankfully, my foot cleared on my 1st attempt. I dreaded a landing in this condition under any parachute. I probably would have lost my leg under a round 28' reserve. Fortunately, I flared into a very soft landing.
niflap 7 months ago
@niflap did you still continue to do jumps? you've got nerves of steel
barbara8512 2 months ago
its fake... at 1:40 she changes direction.. nice try
adamiosca 7 months ago
@adamiosca she doesnt thats an optical illusion watch the video closely and take note on the direction of spin and if it changes direction again i bet it wont be at 1:40
barinit 7 months ago
Float Shape spin? If there is a problem with any of these cut that thing away!
Really sad incident, this could have been prevented. I was tought to observe float shape and spin after opening which should be no longer than 5sec after leaving aircraft, you have a problem with any of these, cut away immediatley!
para5261 9 months ago
i dpont get whats happening??? She parachuted why is she spinning and how would she die?
FlusherD12 9 months ago
@FlusherD12 could have been a line-over or a bad step-through malfunction, either way, if that canopy aint workin by 1,500ft, YOU MUST CUTAWAY AND DEPLOY YOUR RESERVE. STUDENT JUMPERS: THIS IS WHY YOU TEST YOUR CANOPY AFTER OPENING, FLARE, LEFT TURN, RIGHT TURN. IF IT DOES THAT PERFECTLY, IT'S LANDABLE, IF NOT, YOU BETTER CUT THAT THING AWAY AND PULL YOUR RESERVE! There is NO reason this jumper should have died
specialkaye87 9 months ago 28
@specialkaye87 actually her foot was caught in a suspension line, you dont know what would have happened if she cut away. The best thing to do in this situation is try your hardest to get rid of the tangle, cut it if you can, take your shoe off and slip the line off. If you can't, pull your reserve and hope to get some more fabric overhead. Either way, this is a horrible possition to be in and you'de be lucky to live.
noserider207 4 months ago
Poor baby...even with skyhook assist she was too low. No radio on static line to suggest higher cutaway ?
gallmau 9 months ago
I wonder if she had a Cypress?
russiarulezz 10 months ago
@russiarulezz She probably was not falling fast enough for it to activate if she had one.
LLAGor1lla 9 months ago
she should of chopped it was this at a airshow
Leowhitters 1 year ago
why the hell whould she chop at that high stupid girl
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Leowhitters 1 year ago
@Leowhitters
Poor girl. Senseless loss. Why did she cutaway so low? If under 1000 feet we're told to open the reserve and leave the main where it is.
katyu16 11 months ago
@katyu16 I think there are designs where cutaway & reserve activation are package deals. It minimizes the required actions
niflap 7 months ago
@niflap It's called SOS. (single operation system). I learned to skydive on SOS rigs in 1994.
av8rdav 7 months ago
@niflap It wouldn't have mattered...If she had cut away at 500ft she'd be damn lucky if the reserve saved her
keith82687 7 months ago