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Skydiving Fatalities: 2007: Europe: Hard landing while making a low turn

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Hard landing while making a low turn

	Location		Jump Information
Date:	2007-09-30	Category:	Landing
Country:	Czech Republic	Factors:	Low Turn
State:		Jump Type:	Camera or Video
Drop Zone:
	Gear		Personal Information
Container:		Sex:	Male
Main:	XF-15 115	Age:
Reserve:		Jumps:	400+
AAD:		Years in Sport:	6
RSL:		Name:	Klein Ladislav
Description
Friends witnessed the jumper doing slow shallow turn into the wind. Apparently he rapidly changed his heading on finals and he was unable to fully recover from the turn. He hit the groung with his knees first and suffered from severe injuries (broken femur, punched lungs and internal bleeding into brain). He died two days later in hospital. This jumper had recently downsized from an eliptical 150 sq ft canopy to a 115 sq ft crossbraced on the advice of one of his instructors.
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