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Location |
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Jump Information |
| Date: |
2004-04-10 |
Category: |
Malfunction  |
| Country: |
Finland |
Factors: |
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| State: |
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Jump Type: |
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| Drop Zone: |
Vaasan Laskuvarjokerho - DZ Vaasa |
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Gear |
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Personal Information |
| Container: |
Wings |
Sex: |
Male |
| Main: |
Vengence 120 |
Age: |
27 |
| Reserve: |
Techno 128 |
Jumps: |
~300 |
| AAD: |
Cypres 2 |
Years in Sport: |
4 |
| RSL: |
No |
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| Description |
Weather was gusty, average wind being 12kts and peaks around 20kts. Wind at 330ft was blowing pretty hard, 30-40kts. Jumper performed radical and aggressive toggle turns with his canopy and these possibly lead to line twists or into another spinning malfuncition.
The jumper was seen under a spiraling canopy from about 1000 feet. It continued to spiral until he initiated his emergency procedures at 300-400 feet. The reserve canopy did not have sufficient time to deploy.
The deceased had loosened his cheststrap and in examination carried out by a master rigger it was clear that the deceased might have not been able to see his reserve handle. |
| Lessons |
A high performance canopy flown by relatively inexperienced pilot, flown radically in gusty wind conditions, can result in an unrecoverable malfunction.
When performing emergency procedures with the chestrap loosened, one might not be able to see the handles.
An RSL would have probaly saved this jumper at his low cutaway altitude, better would have been handeling the emergency higher.
This is second similar fatality in Finland, caused by radical canopy handeling in poor conditions at low altitudes. |
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