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Just got back from LB, there was a second fatality + a cliffstrike with broken bones this week. Since I only have second hand info on the fatality I won't post the name yet. Anyway, I hate to see this happen, whoever it is. Please brothers and sisters, be careful!
Obi

is it the same as this one?
http://www.dropzone.com/...;;page=unread#unread
or is it a new one?

do you have the date of the accident ??? Was it the 36yrs old french jumper ???

No, sadly there was a second fatality, I'm not talking about the french jumper.
Obi

Freefall cliffstrike of off heading opening ?







BSBD

Fuck!

I hate these...............

Peace to all............... lets be safe out there.......

That makes it 6 this year. Please everybody, stay alive. We don't need an as dark year as last year.

Condolences to friends and family.

Stay safe..

Percy

What nationality was the Jumper in question?



Be careful............... if in doubt walk away to jump another day.

Sad news indeed - the early summer was promising to be a less painful year than last. It pains me to hear that we are going in the wrong direction since then.

Be safe out there, folks - we are all brothers and sisters in our souls.

Peace,

D-d0g

my condolerens to family and freinds

apparently, the 2nd fatality was in Grindelwald... A lady basejumper seems not to have deployed off a 350 meter cliff...
don't have anymore information

the name of the girl was Gabi, that's what I found on french base forum :

Gabi s'est envolée
Blaise Le 2003-08-14 13:57:47
Ceux qui avaient l'habitude de voir le petit bus rouge au tennis de Lauterbrunnen et de s'y arrêter pour boire un café avant le premier saut ne le verront plus. Gabi s'est définitivement envolée lors d'un saut d'ailes (à verifier) pour un monde meilleur où elle pourra enfin sauter de ses propres ailes ...
Gabi, nous te souhaitons bon vol ...

Rough translation.

She was from Austria & had 260+ BASE-Jumps.

Really Really sad.

gree'z
chronistin

Condolences to family and friends ...

Dark time it is ...

PerFlare
Team Bautasten

got more info this week end by friends of her. She was doing a wingsuit base jump at a place going like vertical-horizontal-vertical again, got some turbulence at the 1st part and was lower as usual before passing the flat part, tried to pull but didn't deploy quick enough. It was really hard to speak about that. She had 400+ base jumps during this year.
blues

edit: removed site name ~Tom Aiello