SFL-2022-043 · Cause: Reserve problem
Unconfirmed Facts as reported in the sources below. This is not an official investigation.
Incident
- Date
- 10.09.2022
- Country
- Sweden
- Drop zone
- Fallskärmsklubben Aros
- Place
- Västerås
- Context
- Sport / fun jump
- Jump type
- Fun jump
- Phase
- Deployment
Jumper
- Gender
- Male
- Licence
- A
Cause
- Category
- Reserve problem
- Malfunction
- Line twists
What happened
Newly licensed jumper (A licence, trained that summer). His main canopy malfunctioned and began to spin; he deployed the reserve, which was disturbed during inflation. He hit a residential building.
Sources
- www.svt.se Media
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