SFL-2024-002 · Cause: No pull / low pull
Partially verified Facts as reported in the sources below. This is not an official investigation.
Incident
- Date
- 27.01.2024
- Country
- USA
- Drop zone
- Mile-Hi Skydiving Center
- Place
- Longmont, Colorado
- Context
- Sport / fun jump
- Jump type
- Wingsuit
- Phase
- Deployment
Jumper
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 36
- Licence
- D
- Years in sport
- 18
Equipment
- AAD
- Not installed
Cause
- Category
- No pull / low pull
- Contributing factors
- No AAD / AAD off
What happened
Wingsuit jump from a King Air, his second of the day with a new suit he was struggling to control. He became unstable trying to deploy, spun and tumbled, and could not get the main out. He fell through trees; the reserve was found partly out of its bag. No AAD.
Lessons for safety
Transition to a new wingsuit gradually. Practise finding the pilot chute, and fit an AAD.
Sources
- www.uspa.org Federation, USPA 2024 fatality summary, case #6 (anonymous)
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