Oslo BASE injury.
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Crowd sees base-jumper crash land
From correspondents in Oslo
July 4, 2004
A BASE-jumper who leapt off Norway's tallest tower today suffered serious chest injuries when he hit a lamppost and then slammed into the ground.
The 31-year-old Norwegian was participating in an organised base-jump event with about 25 other people when he leapt off the top of the 37-storey Radisson SAS Plaza hotel in Oslo.
He crash-landed in front of between 200 and 300 spectators.
"He was the fifth person to jump. To begin with everything looked OK, but then he started heading in the wrong direction and one of the strings on his parachute got caught on a lamppost," police duty officer Oddleif Sveinungsen said.
"He was then thrown four to five metres to the ground, landing on the lawn. He hurt his head, his back, and punctured a lung. Luckily ambulances were already there."
Alf Boeler, a spokesman for the Oslo hospital where the man was being treated, said: "He has suffered serious chest injuries. He's in serious but stable condition."
Norwegian media reports said the man was an experienced parachutist, with more than 70 base-jumps and several hundred aircraft jumps to his name.
It was the fourth annual base-jumper event held at the 117-metre-high Radisson SAS Plaza, which decided to let jumpers leap from its roof legally in 2001 in an attempt to put a stop to unauthorised jumps.