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> Skydiving Fatalities: 2004: Europe: Low turn turning into wind for landing

Low turn turning into wind for landing

  Location   Jump Information
Date: 2004-09-20 Category: Landing Search for Landing
Country: Norway Search for Norway Factors: Low Turn Search for Low Turn
State: Jump Type: Relative Work Search for Relative Work
Drop Zone: Østre Æra    
  Gear   Personal Information
Container: Mirage G3 Sex: Male
Main: Sabre2 135 Age: 40
Reserve: PD Reserve 143 Jumps: 1500
AAD: Cypres Years in Sport: 4
RSL: Name: Trygve Bauer-Nilsen
Description
Due to long spot, jumper decided to land in a familiar area outside the normal DZ landing zone. Came in downwind, decided to turn upwind but was too low and impacted the ground in less than two seconds after he initiating the turn. Died some time later due to injuries.

Jumper was current as this was his 235 jump in 2004.

Final report mentions that a blood test taken 4.5 hours after the accident revealed a blood THC level (from Canabis) at 0.010 micromol. At the time of the accident, this value is estimated to have been somewhere between 2 to 20 times higher.
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