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| Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 88.4F, Clear - 8:02 PM MDT Aug. 9 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 07:02 PM PDT Temperature: 88.4°F | Humidity: 27% | Pressure: 29.86in (Rising) | Conditions: Clear | Wind Direction: SE | Wind Speed: 13.0mph More... |
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| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:14 PM PDT Date: March 26, 2009 Nationality: Canadian Object Type: Earth Location: Sass Pordoi, Dolomites, Italy COD: No-Pull / Impact Clothes / Suit: Normal clothes Description: The jump was to be a wingsuit ski base. Ski off of a mountain, do some flips, then pull on release cords that are attached to upward releasing ski bindings in order to jettison the skis and fly away from the wall in the wingsuit and deploy. Shane did a double back flip in perfect McConkey style. As planned, afterwards, he went to release his skis. This is where the jump went wrong. He was able to release the right ski, but not the left, to make matters worse, the right ski became in-tow on the left.. He remained focused on releasing them by reaching down to that left binding. This put him into a spin/ unstable falling style, that was out of his control and not his concern; Shane was only concerned with reaching that heel piece on his left ski so that he could release it and achieve a snag free deployment. His movements were intentional and deliberate. He succeeded in releasing that left ski off of his boot and then both skis were gone. He immediately transitioned into a perfect flying position; but he was too low. Less than a moment later, he impacted the snow, and died. Shane McConkey Documentary Trailer: Shane McConkey -- In Deep tribute bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:12 PM PDT Date: December 29, 2008 Nationality: Belgium Object Type: Span Location: Remouchamps, Belgium COD: impact Clothes / Suit: Normal Clothes Description: The weather was freezing but there was nearly no wind. Papy reportedly knew this 65m (210ft) bridge well and had nearly 200 jumps from it in 2 years with many of them stowed. As Papy jumped alone, no one knows the exact circumstances but Papy died from impact while the canopy was in its deployment sequence. It is possible that he delayed too long, missed his stowed PC and had to reach again, or had a PC hesitation. bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:07 PM PDT Date: October 16, 2008 Nationality: Russian Object Type: Earth Location: Forostky Kant 'W1', Crimea, Ukraine COD: impact Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit Description: Anis was jumping Forostky Kant, wingsuit exit point 'W1'. This is an 18m (60 foot) extended deck off the cliff edge. Rock drop impact is 100m (330ft) below the exit point. Strong wind was reported. Anis left unstable and ended up impacting the cliff. bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:03 PM PDT Date: September 11, 2008 Nationality: Danish Object Type: Earth Location: Ultimate, Stechelberg, Switzerland COD: impact Clothes / Suit: wingsuit Description: The jump site where he went in on is called the ultimate. It is a great jump and not actually very dangerous itself, but getting to the exit point and the exit itself is a big mind fuck. Even after my first jump there I landed and I was shaking and I have 1700+ jumps. From what I was told afterwards it was Simon's first repel which would've added to the nerves. The exit is also technical as you can't see over the egde past a few meters and it is quite underhung for the first 50 feet. Nothing too dangerous but again, a big mind fuck as you need to push off quite hard to get clear. For me personally it is a tracking jump and not a wingsuit jump but it is not for me to tell others they can or can't jump. Again simon seemed like a safe and sensible jumper so I did not worry about him at all. We were not looking up when Simon jumped but immediatley after impact his friend came running over explaining what he had just seen He said he saw someone tumbleing and then a partial parachute coming out and more tumbling down the wall until the talus. He also said there was no way that who ever it was could have survived, so it must have been fast. From the exit point my friend told me that when Simon was about to exit he was very nervous and couldn?t get his footing in the right position to exit. (its a bit of a shitty exit point for your feet and there is some grass on a slope). When he exited he went off in a head down position with, I think, his right shoulder down,with his opposite leg kicking to get stable, before he disapeared out of view. When I got to him on the talus he was wrapped in his tangled canopy and dead, with massive multiple injures. In my view I feel that he exited a little unstable and possibly paniced because of the mind fuck related to the jump. Because of the wingsuit trapping his arms in and also his experience level, I feel he tried to fight the tumbleing all the way down either 1) until impact where the parachute bounced out and he continued to tumble and get wrapped in his canopy until he stopped. or 2) he tumbled from exit and opened his parachute to late and tumbled down to where he came to rest. I have a feeling from memory that his pilot chute was still in its pouch which would mean it was senario number 1. There is not much to do to prevent this type of death except for each and every person to know their own experience levels and not push forward to soon. This is an age old problem that will never go away. Either you make it through that stage of jumping, either uninjured, injured like a lot of people do, or dead which is still pretty rare over all with all the jumps that get made. I do think that his death has made people realize that this jump is an experienced peoples jump only and hopefully that will keep people away. A similar lesson is learnt from every fatality. bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:55 PM PDT Date: September 15, 1994 Nationality: American Object Type: Earth Location: Lake Powell, Arizona, USA COD: Strike (canopy) Clothes / Suit: Normal Clothes Description: This is an experienced skydiver who went along on a week long BASE trip as ground crew. Later in the week he expressed an interest in making a BASE jump himself. His jump resulted in a wall strike. He is pulled from the water and later he died. This jump resulted in manslaughter charges and law suits between jumpers and Park Service officials. The jumper's contention is Lake Powell is legal for sea-plane landings so should be legal for parachute landings as well. Update: On the afternoon of September 15th, rangers received a cellular phone request for medical assistance for a person with life-threatening injuries who'd fallen from a cliff near the mouth of the Escalante arm of Lake Powell. Upon arrival, they found that Paul Thompson, 51, of Dixon, California, had already expired. Thompson was part of a group of seven BASE jumpers who'd made several parachute jumps from the cliff face just south of the Escalante confluence. Witnesses said that his chute deployed upon jumping, but that Thompson got twisted around and struck the cliff face several times because of the parachute's pendulum effect. If you have a picture of this jumper please contact us. bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:51 PM PDT Date: October 1, 1995 Nationality: American Object Type: Earth Location: Canadian Horseshoe Falls /Niagra falls, Canada COD: Drowning Clothes / Suit: Normal Clothes Description: Information source: http://www.reservationsystems.com/ni...overacker.html Quote: Robert Overacker DAREDEVIL FIFTEEN In July of 1992 Bob Overacker, a California native who had lived in New Jersey as a young man came to Niagara Falls hoping to drive a jet ski over the falls. His idea was to gain enough speed at the brink to project his jet ski far enough away from the grasp of the churning rapids. He would then release a parachute that he had attached to his life jacket and slowly drift to the rapids below. When a stunter makes a decision to perform something of this magnitude he usually puts a lot of careful thought and planning into it. Robert Overacker was no different. He had made many calculations and planned his strategy well. However there was one issue he failed to take into consideration. The Niagara Parks Commission will not agree to such stunts and anyone caught doing so is promptly arrested. Robert Overacker knew about this and he thought that by attempting his ride early in the morning he would avoid the throngs of spectators and thus possible arrest by the Parks Police. However the one thing that Robert did not take into account was that much of the water is diverted to hydroelectric plants through the night, making navigation difficult due to exposed rocks. Frustrated, Overacker decided to abandon his attempt.…for the time being. In September 1995 Robert Overacker once again returned from California to Niagara Falls with a trailer containing his Kawasaki. On the side of his jet ski were the words "save the homeless", a cause that Overacker was dedicating his trip to. On October 1st with the help of some friends, Overackers' jet ski was towed to the upper Niagara River near Dufferin Islands. His friends, including a half brother had positioned themselves at a strategic point where they would be able to videotape the whole event. Robert Overacker was last seen saluting the spectators as his jet ski careened over the brink. Moments later he was spotted in the churning rapids below. At first it seemed that he had survived the plunge, but the rapids have a strange way of flailing a corpses' arms around, often giving the appearance of a person swimming. Robert Overacker was later retrieved from the water, taken to Niagara General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:35 PM PDT BFL #24 Date: May 20, 1992 Nationality: British Object Type: Building Location: Hilton Hotel, London, England COD: Strike (Canopy) Clothes / Suit: Normal clothes Description: Darren is doing a direct bag jump and the bag holder dropped the bag. The resulting 180 deployment put Darren into the building. He is jumping a sponsored canopy and carrying a box of Milk Tray chocolates in an attempt to emulate an advert running at the time where a mysterious bloke did extreme things to deliver the chocolates. ********* UPDATE FROM BASE#229 BELOW ********* The jump was from a hotel in London (300'). Darren He went without his mentor and took along with him some DZ friends to watch. Method of deployment was Pilot Chute Assist. Using a modified Pursuit 230 in a sky diving rig which had been loaned to him. He exited very head down with the canopy deploying between his legs and opening 180 and surging into the building front. The canopy surged and stalled repeatedly, from studying the video post jump Darren was probably unconscious or killed on the first impact and was declared dead on the scene. He had been advised a number of times to sort his exits out as his previous 3 jumps were all head down . Jumping this Hotel was for the more experienced. He was 25 years old If you have a picture of this jumper please contact us Video of the jump:    bfl-footer footer BFL |
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| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 11:31 AM PDT Date: July 07 2012 Nationality: New Zealand Object Type: Earth Location: Kandersteg, Switzerland COD: Impact talus, nothing out Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit Description: Account from Douggs Quote: On the morning of the 7th July 2012 several different groups of experienced jumpers all showed up at the same time to get on the first cable car to go to the cliff Kandersteg. All were in wingsuits. The weather was perfect. Not too hot nor cold with a slight breeze at the exit point and in the valley below. Perfect conditions. There were at least 15 jumpers on the exit point and all were in good spirits with a good vibe. Jumpers were exiting and flying both the left line & straight out, with a majority of people flying the right-line. The Deceased, Alan McClandish was about 3 jumpers behind me on the exit. He had mentioned to a fellow jumper that he was a little tired but nothing really out of the ordinary. We joked as perusual and I said to him on exit the standard thing "Have a good one" with a handshake. After flying the left line I landed safely at the cafe and proceeded to watch as a couple of other jumpers exited, flew & opened safely. For Alan's jump I did not see the exit but I saw the second half of his flight, which was looking excellent with good speed & glide. It also looked as he was flying a very tight line. The next part of the jump seemed weird because as he flew to where a large ledge was he started a turn and then disappeared out of site for possibly up to 3 seconds. I was expecting him to fly out from the other side of the ledge but instead there was a very distinct sound of an impact as myself,and at least 10 other jumpers watched him bounce down an almost sheer wall. The canopy appeared to be out but it was a ball of shit. He bounced for possibly about 250 meters and came to rest on a ledge approximately 200 meters up. I instantly called the Rega helicopter and there were there within 15 minutes for what we all knew was body retrieval. It was suggested that all the other jumpers leave, as there was nothing that could be done. Myself and Alan's best friend Benny waited for the chopper and instructed the rescue guys and the doctors on what had happened. After less than an hour they retrieved Alan's body and we confirmed that it was him. Initially we had thought he had hit the cliff 'head on' but this was not the case as his head and face did not show this type of impact. After talking with Benny who also saw the impact from below where it happened we came up with this assumption…. Alan was one of the fiercest wingsuit pilots on the planet when he used to fly his S-Fly wingsuit. His flights were unmatched by any other.He had recently started flying a V4 and was having troubles flying it due to the completely different styles of flying. He had made approximately 12 jumps on the suit and the last 2 jumps he seemed to get it to fly very well. Myself and Benny think that as he was flying so well on this jump that he went back into hardcore mode and decided to fly a tight line to the right. He was higher than most people who fly this line and we think he was trying to get over a large ledge that was also wide. From another angle you can see this very noticeably. We think he realized at the last second that he wasn't going to make it over and he initiated a fairly sharp turn to miss the ledge.Although he could turn on a dime in his S-Fly, he hadn't practiced turning sharply on the V4. We think he impacted on this ledge, which was covered in grass. This also explains the 2-3 seconds where no one saw or heard him as the impact made no sound. We think that after the initial and fatal impact he either slid of rolled down this ledge and back into free fall and it was this time when we all heard and saw the impacting down to where he came to rest on the ledge. He was wearing a camera and helmet but there were no signs of them from the rescue team. I want to say a HUGE thank you to the Police and the rescue team involved in this tragic accident. They did an amazing job and were very compassionate and professional throughout the whole event. Alan was a very experienced base jumper and a very hard-core one at that. He knew the risks involved in this sort of flying and that any miscalculation could result in serious injury or death. I can only ask that all base jumpers please take care out there, especially the good ones, as it is now the experienced guys dying.
I urge everybody to just slow down a little and enjoy the bigger picture. Alan's passion for base jumping was huge and now he can never jump again! There is nothing wrong with flying at 70-80% of what you are capable of. I personally run at 50-70% most of the time to keep stuff in reserve. Please be safe out there BSBD Douggs bfl-footer footer BFL |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2012 11:14 AM PDT Date: August 7, 2012 Nationality: American Object Type: Earth Location: Arve Valley, Magland, France COD: Impact Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit Description: Jumper is experienced More information to come bfl-footer footer BFL |
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| Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 25.0C, Mostly Cloudy - 3:20 PM CEST Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT Temperature: 25.0°C | Humidity: 53% | Pressure: 1023hPa (Steady) | Conditions: Mostly Cloudy | Wind Direction: WNW | Wind Speed: 3.2km/h More... |
| Twin Falls Idaho: Current Conditions : 69F, Clear - 6:53 AM MDT Aug. 9 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 06:56 AM PDT Temperature: 69°F | Humidity: 45% | Pressure: 29.99in (Rising) | Conditions: Clear | Wind Direction: SSW | Wind Speed: 9mph More... |
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| Skydiving: Mission 100: New 102-Way Formation Skydiving Record Posted: 09 Aug 2012 05:50 AM PDT  No doot aboot it, those Canadians now how to throw down a record, eh! Here’s some raw footage from Misson 100 — the new Canadian 102-way formation skydiving record at Parachutisme Nouvel Air on July 13, 2012. Congrats to everyone [...]More... by iLoveSkydiving |
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