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Location |
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Jump Information |
| Date: |
2005-02-05 |
Category: |
Reserve Problems  |
| Country: |
Tunis |
Factors: |
Gear Issues
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| State: |
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Jump Type: |
Relative Work |
| Drop Zone: |
Tozeur |
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Gear |
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Personal Information |
| Container: |
Javelin |
Sex: |
Female |
| Main: |
Velocity 84 |
Age: |
31 |
| Reserve: |
PD Reserve 113 |
Jumps: |
2300+ |
| AAD: |
Cypres |
Years in Sport: |
6 |
| RSL: |
Not Reported |
Name: |
Andrea Ptackova |
| Description |
Skydiver from the Czech Republic was jumping in the Tozeur, Tunis.
It was sunset load with 8 skydivers. The tracking dive proceeded with out incident. They seperated at about 1400m (~4500 ft). She had a malfunction on the main pilot chute. The pilot chute entangled in the bridle and failed to pull the main. She did not cutaway from this. When the jumper pulled the reserve, the main was extracted at same exact time and while still in the D-bag entangled with the reserve while it was still in the freebag.
When jumper was found, both pilot chutes, bridles, lines and bags were entangled about 9 times. Main lines were out, except for 2 stows. The reserve lines were completely out of the freebag, both freebag stows still in, and the freebag closed. Cutaway handle was still on its place on velcro. There were no problems trying to activate it and remove the cable on the ground. The 3-ring-system was working properly. Reserve-ring was pulled, but not found.
The Cypres was found to be activated. |
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