Skydiver Dies After Parachute Fails to Open During Her Jump in Lodi

ktla ^ | October 14, 2018

[fso301]

Very little information provided. Was the cord pulled? Was the chute tangled and unable to open? Was there a reserve chute? Was the cord pulled too late for the chute to open?

[Does so]

"Her Jump in "Lodi"

Is "Lodi" like sawdust or tapioca? ;)

[Getready]

Outfit might change name to include word “skydying” in it.

[Jewbacca]

Pretty sure she slipped in the kitchen making a sandwich.

[kearnyirish2]

“White people problems” - Some find daily life so boring they have to make it interesting for the adrenaline rushes. Mission accomplished here...

[Mustangman]

Lodi, CA. I drive by that place every so often. It’s right next to Highway 99. And yes......it is the same Lodi sung about in that song!!!! When you jump out of an airplane, things might not go well. Is it really a shock accidents happen?

[Hatteras]

Only two things fall from the sky. Bird shit and fools...

[ThunderSleeps]

Thanks for the info. Didn’t realize reserves had to be packed by a pro, but it makes sense.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember that song.

[newfreep]

Betty Rhomer: "Jumpin' is easy...you just jump"

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

You really don’t need a parachute to skydive.

You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

[central_va]

That’s like the old first law of submarining: The number of surfacings has to equal the number of dives + 1.

[Loud Mime]

They no longer have rip cords on the main chute. Now they pull the pilot chute out of a pocket and it takes to the airstream, opening the backpack and pulling out the deployment bag. That cured the old pilot chute hesitation problems we had with the old spring-loaded chutes.

Every planned parachute jump must have a reserve.

Many jumpers now have an automatic opener on the reserve that will fire if you pass a programmed altitude at a programmed speed. The trouble is that if you have a spinning, malfunctioning main, firing a reserve into that mess can twist up both canopies. A friend of mine was killed because of a double entanglement.

[Bonemaker]

Lodi, WI?

[Fightin Whitey]

Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again

Nailed it.

[tomkat]

Thanks...now I’m stuck on youtube listening to [whatever]

Seriesly, ya look up and it's midnight .. lol !

[Gay State Conservative]

Toward the end of my "stellar" Army career I did a Reserve summer camp at Cutler Army Hospital at Ft Devens,Massachusetts.

Coming back from lunch one day I saw a chopper taking off from the front lawn of the hospital,which I thought was strange.Turns out they had just delivered a bird Colonel from the Natick Labs (an Army research complex about 20 miles away) whose still-in-development parachute didn't open.

They took him directly to the Pathology Department.

[Oatka]

Who in their right mind would go to a facility that has had 6 fatalities in 2 years? That's like playing Russian Roulette.

I look on these events as "double-or-nothing" foolishness: No matter how many times you win, you only have to lose once.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Why would anybody jump out of a perfectly well operating aircraft?

[fso301]

Thanks for the informative post.