SFL-2024-027 · Cause: Landing – problem not involving turn
Unconfirmed Facts as reported in the sources below. This is not an official investigation.
Incident
- Date
- 07.07.2024
- Country
- Belgium
- Drop zone
- Skydive Flanders
- Place
- Diest, Flemish Brabant
- Context
- Student
- Jump type
- Tandem
- Role
- Tandem passenger
- Phase
- Approach & landing
Jumper
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
Cause
- Category
- Landing – problem not involving turn
- Contributing factors
- Wind / turbulence
What happened
Tandem passenger. The canopy reportedly collapsed about 10 m above the ground, probably in a gust of wind. The instructor was seriously injured. The prosecutor treated it as an accident.
Sources
- www.vrt.be Media
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