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Fatalities in Illinois, California and Italy
Posted Sun Aug 20 2000
Skydive Chicago - Ottawa, Illinois US
Day 8, Jump #22. This jump showed promise, but did not build completely. During break off, there was an in-air collision between two skydivers. This resulted in the injury of one and the tragic fatality of the other. In light of this incident and the obvious solemn mood of all the participants, we are ending the record camp. Pending notification of the family members, identities of the two skydivers are not currently being released.
Parachute Center in Lodi, California
Saturday evening Nicole Sadek-Cadiz was killed in a skydiving accident at the Parachute Center in Lodi, CA. She was doing a sunset load freefly jump with friends. According to a skydiver on the jump with her, there was a freeze frame of video which showed her on climb out with her chest strap dangling. At approximately 7000 feet a panning video showed a few frames of her in a head down with the rig peeling off her shoulders. She apparently struggled with the rig for a few thousand feet. At around normal deployment altitude the main was somehow deployed, and she was seen was seen falling back to earth away from the main. At first thought to be a cutaway, it was soon clear that the main was flying almost completely inflated, in slow spirals with the rig suspended beneath it.
~ Jan Davis: from rec.skydiving:
Ravenna, Italy
The Italian freeflyer Mauro "Mago" Tannino died in Ravenna,Italy during a camera jump with a student on August,12. Early reports suggests that he failed to jettison a partially deployed main chute and pulled the reserve which resulted a main-reserve entaglement. No further information is available at this time.
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