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Unfortunately we had yesterday another fatal accident in Lauterbrunnen (Stechelberg) where a 37 year old swedish female jumper was killed.

http://www.police.be.ch/...intoedlichverunfallt

Bsbd!

Does anyone have more information on this? from the article it reads like a no pull/hard pull...?

Super Sad ! She was always super nice where ever we ran into her . These "Big Suit" no-pull incidents seem to be ramp-ing up in frequency .... bummer.

No pull found. She tried to pull . Impact nothing out (pc out with impact). She was in V4

Cant help but notice that she had just listed her V4 for sale here because it was too big. Was this the suit she was flying?

Sold my V3 after a no pull incident (quickly realised thankfully) and have gone back to my trusty Phantom where I feel more comfortable

Blue Skies Wioletta x

BOC or legpouch?

Leg pouch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml

So said :-(

I wonder who told this to the media.
Take care,
space

This weighs heavy on the heart. Really sad indeed.

Well, the journalist(s) spoke to her mother...

Damn. Hate to hear it. BSBD

I hate to say it but when ever there is a fatal basejump in CH the extended details near always seam to be published by the Daily Mail in the UK first for reasons unknown to me.

I'm originally from the UK, run my company in Zurich, Switzerland and live in Sweden and still when I hear of the bad and sad news around BASE, first place I look to read is the Daily Mail.

I did not know her even though I'm in her home country but this news is so tragic in so many ways :-(

I read a lot of the comments from the DM and it seems that the general consensus is that females are here on earth for one reason only. to be a baby factory;. Am I so far out there that I am completely wrong that i believe that one should not give up one's life dreams to raise another to give up the life's dream also and so on and so on? I dont understand.

Wioletta and I had a nice long talk about things recently. She was full of pride and vitality about her condition and her Man.
She is awesome!

take care,
space

No, you're not completely wrong. Au contraire, mon ami, you are spot on.

FYI, here is what I just posted to the Daily Mail comment stream. Hopefully it will make it through the moderator gauntlet.


DAILY MAIL comment:

Would all of you who call Wioletta "selfish," "stupid," an "idiot" for "risking" her unborn baby's life say the same thing of women who deliberately kill their unborn babies through abortion?

Wioletta didn't kill her baby or herself on purpose; she had a control problem with the vehicle she was operating.

Would all of you in the "selfish-stupid-idiot" camp say the same thing of a woman who had a control problem with the car, plane, or bicycle she was operating?

She was an accomplished, veteran parachutist. She had exhibited good judgment and skill for 18 years. But we all make mistakes, and we all have bad luck, and when speed and altitude are involved, mistakes hurt more. It is indeed too bad she and her unborn baby died; I would trade them any day for 10,000 of you who are so scared of your own shadows that you dare nothing and crucify those who do.

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P.S. I just checked. It's up there. If you like it, visit the site and click the "up" arrow on the post and we can balance out the whiners and whuffos a bit.

Perfect reply, thank you for representing us well

Great words Robin

+1

As a parent and jumper, Robin, SPOT FUCKING ON! Cheers!

Thanks Robin.

Great reply, rendered obsolete by the "sport death" username

Yeah, maybe Robin should title a book that he wrote by that name. Oh, Wait! It comes up #6 on Google Search out of almost 19,000 links. Is this just a coincident are do the commenters just not know how to google?
Take care,
space

LOL, although only one commenter doesn't get it. I mean, beyond the book title, what part of "sport death" does not apply to Wioletta dying on a BASE jump?

Notwithstanding the outlier, thanks to all for your kind words, and here's a related riff by former US president Theodore Roosevelt that also came to mind as I read all the whining, whimpering and wailing in the Daily Mail comment stream (edited slightly to better fit this thread):

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly... who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if she fails, at least she fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910


Rest in peace, rara avis Wioletta and child. I wish I'd had the chance to know you before your last jump.

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I read this much to late. Sad, sad Bullshit.....why to The hell do they jump pregnant? Hell what a fuck......

WTF dude? should one stop being themselves to make kids to stop being themselves to make kids toooo?. What about you. Got kids? Got potential to make them? Then by your own words you should be a babymaker instead of yourself. For the good of Mankind.
I really hope you posted drunk. I have respected your other posts but this one sux dude.
Take care,
space

she was such a nice, warm and friendly person; would of loved to tell her about my latest ventures when i'd ran into her next. sadly, this wont happen. genuinly interested, always seemed happy to bump into each other.

very, very sad.. heart goes out to her mom and oleg. this sucks.