Posted on 11/12/2009 10:41:23 AM PST by BenLurkin
Riverside County fire officials say a skydiver has been killed during a jump near Murrieta.
Officials say the skydiver, a 40-year-old man from Boston, landed on a driveway in the rural La Cresta area west of Murrieta late Wednesday afternoon.
Officials say the skydiver had departed from Skydive Elsinore at Skylark Airport.
Skydive owner John Hamilton says the man was with four others who jumped without problems, but this man appeared to have hit the tail of the aircraft.
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Wow. The Skydive people have a really great safety record. Wonder what went wrong.
He hit the tail. He must’ve been unconscious during the fall at least.
“He hit the tail. He must’ve been unconscious during the fall at least.”
And after the landing.
I would never jump from a perfectly good aircraft.
Why would ANYONE jump out of a plane without an ADD?
I never would.
It appears that a realted news story was posted about two hours earlier by Chet99 so this really is a “duplicate post”.
He landed in somebody’s driveway? These knuckleheads need to jump in less populated areas. I don’t care in the slightest if they want to risk their lives for nothing, but they need to consider other people. I’m sure the homeowner was real happy to find a dead body in their driveway.
“That’s a nice bit of tail. I tell you what — I’d surely hit it. Here, hold muh beer and watch this.”
What an ADD? The real question is: why would anybody jump out of a plane?
That is my speed. :)
Sgt. John Kaiser says there was an open parachute, but he did not know if it had deployed properly.
Officials say the skydiver had departed from Skydive Elsinore at Skylark Airport.
The diver was one of eighty people in a group called the Wingsuits. They were trying to break a world record.
The video is from a successful jump earlier yesterday.
The skydiving company owner says the Massachusetts man was jumping with four other people when he hit the tail of the plane.
Officials did find an open parachute near his body, but they don’t know if it opened properly.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/massachusetts-man-killed-in-california-skydiving-accident
My first answer has always been, "How do you know it's a "perfectly good" plane?
Don't knock it till you've tried it!!
Been awhile since I skydived, but it appears what USED to be called an ADD (automatic deployment device) now according to USAPA is an AAD.
Or I’m old and scrambled up the acronyms.
Automatic deployment device or Automatic activation device. They will deploy your reserve ‘chute if you pass a set altitude at a velocity greater than a set speed.
No way I would go out the door without one, I thought for sure by now everyone had them. They were only $250 in 1997, cheap insurance.
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