2012 Fatalities

[mjosparky 3]

It’s getting better but still sucks. Out of 50 fatalities in 2012, 21 or 42 percent were under good canopies. Sad.

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[pchapman 262]

Does that mean the USPA annual fatality report is available online or something?

PS - Check your little typo.

[strife 0]

http://www.uspa.org/Portals/0/Downloads/2012FatalitySummary.ppt

[Remster 24]

mjosparky

It’s getting better but still sucks. Out of 50 fatalities in 2012, 21 or 42 percent were under good canopies. Sad.

Sparky

What data are you pulling those numbers from? It's not USPA since there were 19 fatalities in the US in 2012 as per the USPA report.

Remster

[Bluhdow 31]

And there's also a large percentage of fatals that involved perfectly good reserves deployed too low...

How many low cutaway fatalities have we had in the past 12 months? Seems like this has been more of a killer than swooping recently.

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[NWFlyer 2]

Remster

***It’s getting better but still sucks. Out of 50 fatalities in 2012, 21 or 42 percent were under good canopies. Sad.

Sparky

What data are you pulling those numbers from? It's not USPA since there were 19 fatalities in the US in 2012 as per the USPA report.

Probably the fatality database here, which shows 50.

http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/2012/index.shtml

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[diablopilot 2]

Look at how many could have possibly been prevented with the use of an RSL too..... Yay, the sport learns nothing every day.

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[ufk22 32]

Still not even close.

Bluhdow

And there's also a large percentage of fatals that involved perfectly good reserves deployed too low...

How many low cutaway fatalities have we had in the past 12 months? Seems like this has been more of a killer than swooping recently.

This is the paradox of skydiving. We do something very dangerous, expose ourselves to a totally unnecesary risk, and then spend our time trying to make it safer.