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Hi All,

I've updated the BASE Fatality List to version 3.87

- I changed the opening quote at the suggestion of someone here.

- Will Forshay's entry now includes the NTSB report on his aircraft crash.

- Added Josh Whipple to the bottom section.

- Added J.T. to the top section.

- Updated Terry Forrestal's entry to include info about a film concerning his accident.

- Added a photograph of Frank Gambalie.

- Added a photograph of Clod.

http://www.basefatalities.info/

NickD
BASE 194

Thanks Nick. You do a great job!

Also there is a C4 documentary called "seconds to impact" that had Terry featured in it on his first jumps and then eventual death.

What he said. Your commitment, time and energy is very much appreciated.

I don't have an opinion either way but my question is why craig kuske isn't on the list he was a base jumper who died skydiving last year at xkeys. They say he deployed his reserve at 50 feet

Hi Nick-

Thanks for doing the hardest job there is, followed closely by Jason's...

I was in Vegas this weekend and was trying to sweet-talk the security guard at a 51 story casino to let me and my friend jump from the roof. (OK, being a girl does have some advantages...) He was very fascinated but also very AGAINST the idea. He said that on New Year's Eve, at midnight, someone jumped from the 51st floor and impacted and died on the 40th floor parking structure roof. This was news to me! He asserted it was a BASE jump, not a suicide...but I have not heard a peep about it. Does anyone know if this is true or false? At first I was reminded about John A. who is still recovering from high-speed impact in Vegas, but that was Halloween and he's still alive.

Then I heard someone died in Italy over the weekend????

Goddess bless us,
be safe you guys!

Peace,
K

next time give it up... make that sacrifice for the jump and your buddies

lol

just kidding... unless you want to...

>> why craig kuske isn't on the list he was a base jumper who died skydiving last year at xkeys. <<

>>He said that on New Year's Eve, at midnight, someone jumped from the 51st floor and impacted and died on the 40th floor parking structure roof. This was news to me!<<

The first I've heard of either . . .

NickD
BASE 194

Hi Nick

I notice that a guy is missing in your list (in the second part because this guy died skydiving)
His name is Alain Prieur (french) He was one of the first base jumper and a fantastique guy -even if I never meet him. He was mainly a motobike stunt man, he had many world record (still umbited) of jump with motorbike (280 feet, in 88), I saw him when I was a kid jumping 16 busses... and he was off course base jumping with his bike -often with 2 round parachute, one attach to the bike. He was also the first (not sure about that) in 88 to jump without parachute (just a harness under the suit) . Up what I know he died in a routine stunt (for him) passing from a plane to a sale plane , or the other way round, without parachute and something went wrong.
There is more infos about him on Google, I think he deserve a place.
Good luck.
Christophe

>>And you probably won't hear about it...the casino John jumped from said they won't release any information to anyone unless subpoenaed, and gave what was left of his gear back without pressing charges. They're tight-lipped in Vegas, probably the only way to find what happened to that jumper on New years is from his/her family.

It can't be. What did they do, just dig a hole for him in the desert . . .

NickD
BASE 194