| Date | Location | Category | Age | # Jumps | AAD?/RSL? | Dropzone.com Report | Dropzone.com Discussion | |
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| 04/07/2000 | Lake Wales, FL | MAL | 22 | 15 | Y/Y | |||
| Description: Almost no details. He may have entangled with the reserve after cutting away from his main and deploying the reserve in a suboptimal body position. He was apparently visiting from the UK, and had just gotten off student status. | ||||||||
| Lessons:More info appreciated... RSL??!?? | ||||||||
| USPA Description: After a solo skydive from 13,500 feet, this jumper deployed at around 4,500 feet. He experienced what appeared to be a line-ver malfunction of the main canopy. He apparently then cut away and deployed his reserve in response to the malfunction, but the reserve also malfunctioned severely and did not open prior to impact. Investigation of the accident revealed that the reserve bridle had wrapped around the free bag,a deployment bag that containes the reserve canopy, preventing the reserve canopy from inflating. |
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| USPA Conclusions:Witnesses stated that the jumper appeared to be radically unstable during the reserve deployment. Marks on the jumper's legs indicate that the reserve bridle wrapped around hislegs but eventually cleared. The cutaway handle was found in the lines of the reserve. An arched, stable body position during the emergency procedures would have given himthe best possible chance for a clean reserve deployment. |
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| Name | Barry Maguire | |||||||