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The name and pictures is only released straight away on the Facebook private page all other pages we have a media Black out ban for 10-14 days.

So sad. was he jumping alone?

Please never put on a rig unless the PC is safely in the pouch... even if it's a 48"... that is how this can happen.

This one seems a little different. I seem to recall a lot of the mis-routed bridles coming from hand held jumps where jumpers gear up with their PC on the ground and run the bridle around a lateral or similar.

This one though...a static line through a leg strap...is odd. Took me a minute to think about how it could happen, but here are my thoughts:

1. The jumper rigged the S/L with his rig off, and somehow rigged the bridle through the legstrap. This seems unlikely. Most of us set up S/Ls once we have gear on, I think.

2. The jumper put his rig over his shoulders and then set up the S/L. Once the S/L was rigged I can imagine him standing with his bridle going cleanly from the bottom pin to the anchor. From there it's possible he used the two-buckle open legstrap design to secure his legstraps, and closed the bridle (which is now coming off of his back) into the legstrap against the back of his leg.

Does that make sense? Beyond those two options I'm not sure how one could get a bridle though a leg strap on a S/L jump.

Thoughts?

He was not jumping alone. The other jumper who watched everything was in fact the one who called the emergency services.
It is a very sad new, not only by the loss of a friend but indeed the way it has been treated in the mass media.

Saw this online, apparently this is how it was routed. Technically inside the lateral, not the leg strap. Sounds very similar to #207.

Well if it was around the lateral then yeah, we've seen that before.

Still brought to my attention the potential to close a bridle inside the leg strap when using a two buckle system. Never been a fan, just another reason to always leave them mated.

The best fix for that is to never gear up with the PC out of the BOC. Then it doesn't matter if you have two piece buckles, or even if you put the bridle through a lateral or a leg strap. You just have to make sure the harness is completely on and tight _before_ removing the PC from the BOC.

while this is true, simply touching your bridle near pins and following it all the way to pc or static line would catch this misrouting every time.

any time I am handleld, staticline or even pca I do this check...

sad to see previous fatalities repeating, especially one as rare as this..

+1

I thought the whole point of the BFL was to educate to try and prevent fatalities yet as you've said, here we are again, as we were with the last person whose PC entangled with their stashbag.

You can lead a horse to water

But, we will never truly know how many lives it still manages to save. it may be a lot even if things like this still happen once in a while.

extremely important point

Agree 100%.