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> Skydiving Fatalities: 2005: Pacific: Unstable freefall

Unstable freefall

  Location   Jump Information
Date: 2005-07-31 Category: Unknown Search for Unknown
Country: Australia Search for Australia Factors:
State: Jump Type: Relative Work Search for Relative Work
Drop Zone: skydivenagambie    
  Gear   Personal Information
Container: Sex: Male
Main: Age: 59
Reserve: Jumps: few
AAD: Years in Sport:
RSL: Name: John Hawkes
Description
The student experienced an unstable freefall and the instructor was unable to stablilze them. Unclear if anything was deployed, but the student was killed instantly on impact with the ground.
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