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> Skydiving Fatalities: 2004: North America: Unconscious landing under spiraling canopy

Unconscious landing under spiraling canopy

  Location   Jump Information
Date: 2004-07-08 Category: Other Search for Other
Country: United States Search for United States Factors:
State: Illinois Jump Type: AFF Search for AFF
Drop Zone: Skydive Chicago    
  Gear   Personal Information
Container: Sex: Male
Main: Age: 31
Reserve: Jumps:
AAD: Years in Sport: 2
RSL: Name: Joel Morgan
Description
Reports suggest this jumper had a very hard opening that did damage to him or his equipment or both. Eye-witnesses saw him in a coming down in a corkscrew spiral under his inflated main canopy. He appeared lifeless and unresponsive right after his parachute deployed and kept spiraling until he impacted the ground. There is a possibility that he very well might have been unconscious or dead prior to impact. It was his first solo jump.
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