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• Gear Issues factor in death of British jumper - by Times online
  The British skydiver Clare Barnes died when her parachute failed because it was not packed properly, an interim report into the accident claimed today. The Australian Parachute Federation (APF), which has been investigating the incident, blamed poor gear maintenance and incorrect packing of the parachutes for the 24-year-old’s death.
  (Rating: 7.00 Votes: 4 Viewed: 5262 Posted: Fri Mar 19 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Gulfport skydiver killed in stunt landing - by Greg Harman
  MOSS POINT - An award-winning skydiver was killed New Year's Eve night attempting a high-speed stunt landing. Michael "Scotty" Agent, a Gulfport resident and six-year employee of Gold Coast Skydivers in Moss Point, was attempting a "high performance" parachute landing when a low turn went wrong and he hit the ground at high speed, officials said.
  (Rating: 9.00 Votes: 4 Viewed: 3671 Posted: Fri Jan 02 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Kiwi-built skydiving plane crashes at sea, killing pilot - by AP
  A Pacific Aerospace Corporation 750XL, the first passenger-carrying aircraft designed and built in New Zealand, has crashed at sea while being delivered to its American buyer. Early reports said the plane may have experienced mechanical problems.
  (Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 3511 Posted: Sat Dec 27 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Six killed in mid-air plane crash in Germany - by Reuters
  Six Germans have been killed when two small aircraft collided in clear skies over the southern German state of Bavaria, police said. The crash involved a one-man glider and a Cessna plane with a pilot and four passengers who were planning to do tandem parachute jumps, a police spokesman said.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 2613 Posted: Sat Aug 23 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Research on Injuries Sustained from Hard Openings - by Patrick Weldon
  The Neurology Neurosurgical Department of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, under the guidance of Patrick Weldon MD, is conducting an investigation into Injuries Sustained from Hard Openings and is actively researching any skydivers who may have been injured from a hard opening.
  (Rating: 7.50 Votes: 2 Viewed: 2631 Posted: Sun Jul 27 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• BASE jumping injuries and treatment in the field - by Dexterbase
  You just landed after throwing a double gainer from a cliff in Moab. Adrenaline surges through your system as you think of the amazing visuals you just saw. As you gather up your canopy, you pause to watch the next jumper exit.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 3234 Posted: Sun Jul 27 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Murder inquiry into skydiving death - by BBC
  The death of a skydiver whose parachute failed to open over an airfield in North Lincolnshire is now being treated as murder. Stephen Hilder, who was 20, fell 13,000 feet to his death while he was taking part in a jump, at Hilbaldstow Airfield, on Friday.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 9381 Posted: Sun Jul 06 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Roger Nelson dies after canopy collision - by The Associated Press
  OTTAWA, Ill. -- Skydiving center owner Roger Nelson, whose Skydive Chicago had been criticized for a high number of fatalities in recent years, has died in a parachute accident. Nelson, 48, was parachuting Saturday with Todd Fey, 43, of Fargo, N.D., when Fey bumped into into Nelson's parachute, causing it to collapse, investigators said.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 3434 Posted: Mon Jun 16 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiving plane crash kills four - by The Associated Press
  JEANNETTE, Pa. June 16 — A Father's Day skydiving trip turned tragic when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing four of the five people aboard. Witnesses told authorities they heard the Cessna 205's engine sputter and cut out before the crash about 1:15 p.m. Sunday at Greensburg-Jeannette Regional Airport.
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• Mass skydive to honor 2 killed in biplane crash - by Eric Schmidt
  As many as 100 skydivers from across the country will gather in Longmont on Saturday for a commemorative jump and memorial service to honor a colleague who died in a plane crash over the weekend. "It's a special kind of memorial that skydivers do for one of their own," said Gary Sands, brother of Jeffrey Sands.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1506 Posted: Tue Apr 29 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• UK Serviceman dies in parachute accident
  A 28-year-old serviceman has died during a parachute jump at an airbase in Oxfordshire. The victim was taking part in a recreational jump with the RAF's Sports Parachuting Association at RAF Weston-on-the Green.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 3310 Posted: Fri Apr 18 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 3 Skydivers Injured Before NASCAR Race - by Associated Press
  ROCKINGHAM, N.C. - Three Army skydivers were injured Sunday when strong wind knocked them to the ground before a NASCAR race. A group of eight jumpers from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute team from Fort Bragg came sailing into the track area, trailing red smoke as part of the pre-race activities for the Subway 400 at North Carolina Speedway.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1409 Posted: Sun Feb 23 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Seven cheat death in Pattaya plane crash
  Seven people, including the pilot, escaped with relatively minor injuries when a Britten-Norman BNA2 twin engine Islander belonging to Skydive Thailand crashed in a cassava field outside Pattaya Airport opposite the Phoenix Golf Club at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 2189 Posted: Fri Jan 17 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Shannon Embry
  At 5:30 pm on Monday, October 14th, Shannon Embry died while making a skydive. Shannon, 40 years of age, was an experienced skydiver from Tennessee. She was participating in the Women's World Record attempt, "Jump for the Cause", a breast cancer fundraiser.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 1700 Posted: Mon Oct 14 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• C-182 Crash: A First Jump Story - by Michele Lesser
  All was going well last Saturday, September 28. It was a pretty day in Beaver Oaks, Oregon, and Skydive Inc. had put up about 12 loads. There had been no previous incidents, but we all know that things can change rapidly. And on that load, they did.
  (Rating: 9.80 Votes: 5 Viewed: 2500 Posted: Tue Oct 01 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Two Killed in TV Tower Collapse
  HEMINGFORD, Neb. (AP) — A 1,965-foot-high TV tower collapsed, killing two workers who were trying to strengthen the structure, which had been taller than the Empire State Building.
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• Skydiving Plane Crashes near Estacada
  Beaver Oaks, Oregon - A team of skydivers leaped from a crippled airplane Saturday, moments before it crashed into a stand of trees near Estacada. The four trick-parachute jumpers aboard and the pilot survived without injuries. Their small Cessna C-182 crumpled into trees near Highway 224 and burned before Estacada firefighters arrived.
  (Rating: 9.00 Votes: 2 Viewed: 1408 Posted: Sun Sep 29 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 11 killed in Russian plane crash
  MOSCOW: A small plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport in a remote part of Siberia on Saturday September 14, killing 11 people on board, an official said.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1100 Posted: Mon Sep 16 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Marijuana in skydiver's system - by Maurice Possley
  A skydiving instructor who died in July while attempting to land on a pond at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa was seriously impaired by smoking marijuana within two hours of his death, according to a toxicology report released Wednesday.
  (Rating: 5.50 Votes: 2 Viewed: 2960 Posted: Thu Sep 12 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Two Texas skydivers die in canopy collision
  WHITEWRIGHT -- Two sky divers killed when their parachutes became intertwined in a twilight jump over Northeast Texas were veteran jumpers with more than 200 jumps each to their credit, officials with their skydiving club said today.
  (Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 1993 Posted: Sun Aug 25 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Authorities investigate death of Indiana skydiver - by Associated Press
  OTTAWA, Ill. - Authorities were investigating a death involving an Illinois skydiving club Monday after a 33-year-old Indiana man was killed over the weekend in the sixth fatal accident at the club in a little more than a year.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 2941 Posted: Sun Jul 14 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Parachutist caught in storm
  A skydiver who was sucked into a thundercloud and landed unscathed has picked up the nickname "Little Miracle." Montreal student Mathieu Gagnon walked out of the Ottawa Hospital Monday morning, laughing at jokes and promising to leap out of an airplane again soon. Except for sore muscles, the 21-year-old was unharmed from a bizarre accident Sunday.
  (Rating: 9.75 Votes: 4 Viewed: 2610 Posted: Mon Jun 24 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiver in near miss with slurry bomber - by Peter Konrad
  Just wanted to show you guys a video that I took this Saturday (15 June 2002). I am sure that you have heard about the fires here near Denver. We were jumping at Longmont, just north of Denver, my home DZ. There were slurry bombers flying over the center of the airport, at 3000' agl, despite several calls to the US Forestry Service.
  (Rating: 9.83 Votes: 6 Viewed: 3064 Posted: Wed Jun 19 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Blue Skies, Johnny "Velocity" - by Cristy West
  On a chilly but otherwise beautiful May day, we lost a brother to a freefall collision and subsequent no-pull. John Faulkner (known to many as "Johnny Velocity" or "Johnny Wood"), an avid jumper and tandem instructor with over 1,000 jumps, died on Saturday, May 18 at Skydive Chicago during a two-way freefly jump with Jeff Brown.
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• Two die as skydiver hits glider
  Two people fell to their deaths after a freak mid-air collision when a skydiver smashed through the wing of a glider. The glider's pilot also died in the collision at around 2,000ft, which happened at Hinton Airfield, near Brackley, Northants, at about 1500 BST on Saturday.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 2089 Posted: Fri May 31 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It