PERRIS, Calif

[airdog07]

1 dead in skydiving collision above California airport - USATODAY.com

another one,

[mknutson]

1 dead in skydiving collision above California airport - USATODAY.com

another one,

WTF..... Why are there so many collisions? Hell, BASE Jumpers have far less open areas and way more shit to hit..... How can this keep happening when you have SO MUCH OPEN AREA?

just wondering....

[speedphreak]

Anybody find it ironic that this canopy collision fatality took place just before the ash dive to commemorate the last canopy collision fatality?

[mknutson]

That is ironic....

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[Greenmachine]

A thin, Italian TM named Yuri hook/flew into Jacob.
I used to work with the former... deep condolences
to the friends and family of the latter.

Sucks to do everything perfect and then have some
idiot hit you with their canopy, or their car, van, etc.

2 weeks between exact same fatal accidents.
We are a fucking slow learning species, aren't we

[mknutson]

Have you seen the movie idiocracy?

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[Greenmachine]

Fuddruckers to Buttfuckers

[mknutson]

Brondo has what the body needs

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[airdog07]

Risky maneuver likely caused Canadian skydiver death in Calif. jump where 5 others have died - The Washington Post



By Associated Press, Published: December 28

PERRIS, Calif. — An experienced Canadian skydiver died at a Southern California drop zone after landing hard while attempting a high-speed maneuver known as “swooping,” authorities said Wednesday.

Michael Ungar, 32, of Aylmer, Ontario, died Tuesday at Perris Valley Skydiving, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. It was the sixth death at the parachuting facility in the last 15 months.

Witnesses said Unger’s parachute was open as he made the difficult maneuver and landed in a shallow pond. Friends pulled him out of the water, the Riverside County coroner and Perris police said in a release.

Swooping involves a high-speed dive to skim over the ground before landing. Parachutists are often traveling 40 mph vertically and up to 60 mph horizontally just before touching down on the ground.

“It’s risky because you are moving so fast,” said Jim Crouch, the safety director for the Fredericksburg, Va.-based United State Parachuting Association. “A lot of jumpers choose to land this way because it’s exciting. But it’s very unforgiving.”

Accidents occur when parachutists start the maneuver too low and the parachute doesn’t have the ability to recover, or fill with air, and float the skydiver to the ground, Crouch said.

The maneuver has become so popular there are swooping competitions at drop zones around the country, said Crouch, who describes it as “a sport within a sport.”

There have now been four sport parachuting swooping deaths nationwide this year, Crouch said. The highest death count involving the maneuver was seven in 2002. There were six in 2006 and four last year.

“Jumpers are getting safer with this type of skydiving, (but) you can never completely take the risk out of it,” Crouch said.

The 33,000-member United States Parachute Association promotes safe skydiving through training, licensing and instructor-qualification programs.

There are more than 140,000 jumps each year at Perris Valley Skydiving, one of the most active of 140 drop zones in the United States. Tuesday’s accident marks at least the 14th death at the Perris facility since 2000 and the fifth this year.

“It’s been a bad year for them,” Crouch said. “I know they have been working on getting everybody to jump as safe as possible.

“It’s a high-volume drop zone. The percentage doesn’t point to them doing anything out of the ordinary.”

Perris Valley Skydiving center manager Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld said Ungar sometimes worked as an instructor at Skydive Hollister on California’s Central Coast. Ungar, who had 2,000 jumps to his credit, was visiting the Perris area and had rarely, if ever, jumped at the facility, Brodsky-Chenfeld said.

Ungar’s parachute was open and he was circling as he neared the ground, witness Jack Nix, of Fontana, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. But when he did not pull up or turn his body upright from parallel to the ground, Nix said he knew the skydiver was in trouble.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the air safety regulator only investigates such deaths to determine whether the parachute was packed properly by a certified packer.

Authorities were investigating the Ungar’s death. Other recent fatal accidents at Perris include:

— In April, two skydivers collided, killing Jacob Jensen, 32, of Denmark. The other man survived critical injuries.

— Two skydivers were killed in March when their parachutes deflated and they fell 300 feet.

— In February, a 41-year-old Australian woman died after failing to open a backup chute.

— In September 2010, a 51-year-old Russian man died after a solo jump. The man’s body was not found until two months later by a farmer plowing a field. His parachutes had not been deployed.

[nicknitro71]

I think we should put students under 2.0+ wingloading so if they survive to become skydivers, they won't hook themselves in as much, I would assume. We can always McConkey swoop machines out of El Cap tho!

[airdog07]

Skydiver killed at Perris Valley facility; sixth death in 14 months | 89.3 KPCC

Feb. 18, 2012 | KPCC wire services


In a Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 photo, officers outside a field at Perris Valley Skydiving center after a skydiver was killed in Perris, Calif.

A skydiver died Saturday when he fell to the ground during a competition at the Perris Valley Skydiving Facility in Perris, according to the Riverside coroner's office.

Sean Carey, 35, of San Diego, was performing a solo maneuver when he crashed at about 9:10 a.m. He was treated at the scene and transported to Riverside County Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead ten minutes later.

The Press-Enterprise reported in December that the Perris Valley facility had already seen five fatalities in 2011. Carey was the sixth fatality in little over a year.

In December, an experienced 32 year-old Canadian skydiver died from a hard landing at Perris Valley. Earlier last year, four people died and one person was seriously injured in three separate skydiving incidents at the airport.

There have been a total of 14 deaths at the facility since 2000.