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• Skydiver cheats death after chute malfunctions - by Elise Young
  Years from now, when Tonguc Yaman recounts his adventure to his children, it may go something like this: Drove the Harley to Sussex Airport. Strapped on the parachute. Jumped out of a Cessna. Went home. Slept. Forgive him if he fails to mention the part about the chute collapsing in a freak wind, the freefall to the ground, and the helicopter ride to the trauma center.
  (Rating: 6.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 1400 Posted: Mon Jul 02 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiver hits power lines
  A QUEENSLAND skydiver has cheated death, sustaining only minor injuries when his parachute hit power lines. The experienced Townsville skydiver is expected to be released from hospital tomorrow after being treated for a chipped bone in his heel.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 836 Posted: Thu Jun 28 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Paratroopers Injured in Jump
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - For some of the best paratroopers in the United States and Australia, men used to jumping into war zones, it was supposed to be a routine night mission. But 52 of them hit the ground with a thud, breaking bones and spraining ankles during a recent joint military exercise called Tandem Thrust in the Australian state of Queensland.
  (Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 825 Posted: Mon Jun 25 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Fatality at Air Capital Skydiving Center, Kansas - by Phil Haase
  Geoff Peggs, Age 21, died in a skydiving accident on Friday, June 15th in Wichita, Kansas. Geoff was making his 5th or 6th jump with a Birdman suit when he exited the Cessna 182 from 11,000 feet. Witnesses on the ground observed deployment at an estimated 4,000 feet AGL. The main parachute started to spin immediately after deployment and continued until impact. The Coroner stated that the injuries sustained upon impact caused immediate death.
  (Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 812 Posted: Fri Jun 15 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Fatality at Skydive Delmarva - by Martin Evans
  On Sunday June 10th @ about 1.50pm 45 year old Peter Tome an experienced skydiver with 600+ jumps and 10 years in the sport, along with two other experienced skydivers made a 3 way headdown skydive from the Twin Otter @ Skydive Delmarva.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 873 Posted: Sun Jun 10 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiving couple tell of Tandem Emergency - by Michael Horsnell
  A SKYDIVER who plummeted 13,000ft to earth with his bride after their main parachute failed to open spoke yesterday about the accident. Kevin McIlwee, 47, said from his hospital bed in France: "I didn't have time to think whether we were going to get through it or not."
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 964 Posted: Wed Jun 06 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiver dies after hitting propeller of another plane
  SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) - A parachutist was killed instantly when she struck a plane's propeller while practicing a skydiving formation with 29 other jumpers. Michele Thibaudeau, 36, and eight other parachutists were in one airplane Sunday and the other 21 jumpers were on a second aircraft.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1244 Posted: Thu May 31 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Oakland Skydiver Dies After Losing Consciousness
  Lodi, May 27 - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's office reports that an Oakland man died Saturday after jumping with a group of parachutists, possibly from a mid-air emergency that might have started on the ground. "It appears that the decedent suffered some sort of a medical emergency during the jump which incapacitated him, disallowing him to properly and safely complete the landing," said spokesman Joe Herrera of the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department.
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• Second Skydiver this Month dies in South Africa - by The Citizen
  A 35-year old Pretoria man died in Eugene Marais Hospital last night (13 May), hours after plunging several hundred metres to the ground in a parachuting accident at the Wonderboom airport late yesterday afternoon. Mark Farrell was the second man to die in a parachuting accident at the airport in the past month.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 624 Posted: Mon May 14 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Army investigates paratrooper mishap - by Henry Cuningham
  Army officials are investigating why a jumpmaster's reserve parachute activated inside an airplane Tuesday night causing him to be sucked out of the aircraft.Sgt. Yusefiman Wright was released from FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst on Friday, a spokesman said.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 702 Posted: Sat May 12 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Leap Frog Recovering From Skydiving Accident
  A member of the Navy's elite "Leap Frogs" skydiving team was recovering in a hospital Wednesday from injuries he suffered when a jump from 12,000 feet went awry near the U.S.-Mexico border. Malfunctioning chutes forced USN Senior Chief Kelly Hickman, 44, into a hard landing east of Brown Field airport in Otay Mesa during a routine jump Tuesday, according to 10News.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 912 Posted: Wed May 09 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiver breaks leg
  A skydiver was in Perth Royal Infirmary last night after badly breaking a leg while at Strathallan airfield in Perthshire. It is believed the man, who has not yet been named, landed awkwardly at the end of an otherwise uneventful 2,000ft dive.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 609 Posted: Wed May 09 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Student survives after parachute fails at 4,000ft - by Richard Savill
  A STUDENT who survived a 4,000ft fall after her parachute failed to open during a skydiving holiday in America was recovering from her injuries at her father's home in Gloucestershire last night. Lynda Harding, 20, a chemistry student at Hull University, spent a week in intensive care in California with broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken nose, muscular back injuries and concussion.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 987 Posted: Thu May 03 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Cool pilot saves 11 skydivers - by Mike Edmonds, Kamahl Cogdon and Peter Mickelburough
  A SKYDIVER was killed and 11 others forced to jump for their lives in a tragedy more than 4000m above central Victoria yesterday. Simon Moline, 31, of Malvern, was sucked from the plane when his parachute opened while he was standing inside the rear door. His parachute snagged on the Cessna's tail, ripping it from the fuselage and sending the plane into a death spin over Nagambie.
  (Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 863 Posted: Sun Apr 29 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Plunge skydiver on the mend - by Alastair Dalton
  A NOVICE skydiver who fell 3,200ft after his parachute failed to open properly is back at home and expected to make a full recovery. Craig Paton, 26, was being cared for by his family in Kilmarnock last night, less than three weeks after cheating death when he hit the ground at more than 40mph. Mr Paton took the place of a friend at the last minute to make his first skydive jump from Strathallan airfield, near Auchterarder in Perthshire, on 8 April.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 612 Posted: Fri Apr 27 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Navy SEALs Injured In Parachute Jump
  Two U.S. Navy parachutists were injured Tuesday when a training jump went awry, sending them crashing to the ground in a field near the U.S.-Mexico border. The SEAL team members' hard landings occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. near Otay Mesa and Alta roads, east of Brown Field airport, a Heartland Fire Department dispatcher said.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 730 Posted: Tue Apr 24 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• BASE Jumper Tangled in Treetops Falls 40 Feet - by Outside Online
  An Ohio man BASE jumping from West Virginia's New River Gorge Bridge early Saturday morning missed his landing spot and got tangled in some trees before releasing himself from his harness and falling some 40 feet. According to a report today by the National Park Service, 33-year-old Shannon Murphy, of Wadsworth, launched into the darkness at 1:40 A.M. The sky was overcast and the gorge was full of fog, making it nearly impossible for him to see his landing zone.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 332 Posted: Sat Apr 14 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Canadian skydiver dies in Florida jump
  DELAND, Fla. (CP-AP) - An experienced Canadian skydiver died after making a tricky high-speed turn too close to the ground, crashing into the pavement at a popular Florida skydiving centre. Stephane Drapeau, 30, from Beloeil, Que., was making a routine jump until he made the high-speed turn at an extremely low altitude as he approached the landing area at Skydive DeLand near the municipal airport.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 863 Posted: Sat Apr 14 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Police parachutist injured in test jump - by Raslan Baharom
  TAIPING: A police parachutist suffered a bad fall from a 1,500m jump after his parachute strings became entangled mid way before the landing. Safaruddin Mohd Ariffin, 36, who suffered head and neck injuries, was rushed to the Taiping Hospital in the 10.45am incident at the old airport in Tekah here yesterday.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 520 Posted: Fri Apr 13 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Main Reserve Entanglement Injures Skydiver in Scotland - by Gillian Harris
  A TRAINEE skydiver was seriously ill in hospital last night after his parachute failed to open during a jump from 3,200ft. Craig Paton, 26, hit the ground at 40mph at Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross. He was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee suffering from internal bleeding and back and chest injuries and was later transferred to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh where his condition was said to be critical but stable.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 536 Posted: Sun Apr 08 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Ring Sights and Suspension Lines
  Included in this feature are three parts related to the death of Jan Davis at Lodi a week ago. The first part is a recent post by Jan Davis to rec.skydiving in response to the death of a fellow skydiver a while ago. Ironically the post deals with the risk risk of camera line snags, which seems to have been part of the tragic chain of events that led to her death. The second part is an article from a local newspaper regarding the Jan's accident and the third is an article about the ongoing FAA investigation.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 463 Posted: Sun Apr 08 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydiver cheats death after jump goes wrong - by Frank O'Donnell
  A SKYDIVER was critically ill in hospital last night after falling more than 3,000 feet when his parachute failed to open properly. Craig Paton, 26, hit the ground at more than 40mph when his first ever skydive went tragically wrong. After his main parachute malfunctioned, he fell to the ground in just 60 seconds, when a normal descent from 3,200ft should take four minutes. Mr Paton landed on a lush grass embankment which cushioned his fall, missing a concrete road and certain death by only a few feet.
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• Inquest told Skydiver Lost Control
  An inquest in Cardiff has heard how a Welsh Guardsman plummeted to his death when he lost control of his parachute over a Spanish holiday resort. A verdict of accidental death was recorded on 30-year-old Carl Henly who was on a New Year skydiving holiday on the Costa Brava when a formation jump went wrong.
  (Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 505 Posted: Wed Apr 04 2001)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• BASE Fatality in Switzerland - Jumping Suspended
  Monday, 2nd April 2001, an experienced belgian jumper died while BASE-jumping in Switzerland. During a 3-way with another belgian and a french jumper, he impacted the wall probably during opening sequence. Aperently, he was back-tracking and might lost awareness of altitude. The Air-Glacier-Doctor reached him 15 min. later by helicopter, but the jumper was dead already.
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• Plane crash survivor says he's not sure he'll try skydiving again
  DECATUR, Texas (AP) - Rob Franklin's skydiving dreams are on hold for now. Instead of making his maiden jump Saturday, Franklin, 32, ended up with a broken foot, concussion, gashes in his head and lip and a sore back when the skydiving school's plane went down in a field north of Fort Worth with 22 aboard. At least five others also were injured, one seriously.
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