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Another fatality in Brazil...... sept 13th 6 pm local time

I jumped with him friday at our bridge...

yesterday he went to a 180 ft A, free stander,

WHen I get more info I will let you know..... probably problems on the static line set up.....


he had 40 base jumps... was a climber, rafting guide, skydiver, and a bad ass paraglider pilot....

Fuck!
why good people die first? I start to believe earth is hell.....
Andre # 1063

Condolences to his family and friends!
chris

Really sorry dude.

Sucks losing a friend.

Condolences to all.

Condolences to all the Brazilian crew.

Sorry for your friend.condolences for family and and friends.
Nico.

Condolences to you and your crew. it never gets any easier to lose a friend.

stay safe Andre...

BSBD

Andre Sorry to hear about your friend. Aqui e o Adriano de TF, eu sinto muinto pelo seu amigo.

te vejo Amigo
Adriano
VA

does anybody have details of this incident so we can learn something from it?

hey Andre....

we meet a brento a year ago...
the germans from the BBC...

sorry for your loss...keep your head up...

Harry

Always head up, Harry.....
Have fun with the crazy norwegian who is around your area this week......

Don't let him drive Jughen' s car.... ( I never know where the H letter goes! )

Hope to jump with the BBC again....

Later,
Andre

PS: as soon as we have conclusions about what happened, I will let everybody know.....

I talked to a jumper who was on the load...

Marcelo climbed the A, tied a rope on top, tied the static line on the rope...... never checked if the knots were solid.....
jumped..... the rope+SL came together with him, not pulling the bridle,

and he has without a Pilot chute.........


Don't ask me how was the rope tied... the guy don't speak too much portuguese to discribe by phone.


Later,
Andre

Thanks for the report.

Almost a comedy of errors if it wasn't for the tragedy.

Sorry for the loss.

do you know if he had jumped this antenna with the same deployment system before?. were the other jumpers on the load jumping the same way(no pilot chute)?.
earlier in the thread you say he had only 40 basejumps, do you know the experience level of the other people on the load, how many others were there?

there was another jumper on the ground, but they had just one gear, so, he was jumping alone.
the other guy has 130 jumps.

They jumped there before, once it is close to our bridge, doing PCA's to each other, and climbing down.

this is it.

 
when they did pca for each other do you know if they were using a pilot chute?

PM sent to not take this too long.

Andre.

being new to base i was wondering if not using a pc for s/l jumps is normal. no disrespect to the dead by any means but wtf! seems like common sense to have a 46 or a 48 pc attached just in case the knots fail.
do other jumpers here not attch a p/c when s/l?

im very sorry for the loss of your friend.

I've done this once, because we were jumping a very short bridge and I was curious if the presence of the pilot chute was reducing what little forward speed I had before impact. I removed the pilot chute and tied a loose "backup" loop of break cord in addition to the usual one. However, removing the pilot chute had no effect, so it's the last time I did that.

In addition, following that experiment, Dwain commented that the most likely time for the break cord to go prematurely is as the canopy is being lifted from the container. Even at extremely low altitudes, if the container is already open and the bridle stretched, there's a good chance a large PC will extract the canopy.

I can't think of any good reason to remove the pilot chute when doing a static line jump.

Michael

no disrespect but i thought conventional wisdom was to always leave the PC on (for this very reason).

Is there any good reason to take it off?

Condolences to the Family and Friends. To many losses. To many.

there was a thread about this very thing a few months ago.

the idea of having the PC off is you get better glide ratio, and could fly over an obstacle to land on some SL jumps.