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'Truly extraordinary' skydiver fell 15,500ft to her death hours after break-up with boyfriend
Wales Online ^ | 21 Aug 2025 | Tom Wilkinson, PA and Ellie Gosley

Posted on 08/21/2025 9:16:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/21/2025 9:16:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Eventually the odds will catch up with you.

L


2 posted on 08/21/2025 9:17:35 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Effective and not likely to hurt anyone else.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 9:21:53 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: nickcarraway
Call me suspicious. but...


4 posted on 08/21/2025 9:22:59 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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“An experienced skydiver deliberately fell to her death from 15,500ft the day after her relationship ended, an inquest heard.”

My guess is that she was in therapy.


5 posted on 08/21/2025 9:24:42 PM PDT by BobL
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t her remains have resembled a puddle, with the occasional lump in it?


6 posted on 08/21/2025 9:28:34 PM PDT by EinNYC
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There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute

Intestines were a-danglin’ from his paratrooper’s suit

They picked him up, still in the suit, and poured him from his boots

And he ain’t gonna jump no more


7 posted on 08/21/2025 9:32:41 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: nickcarraway

And she ain’t gonna jump no more.


8 posted on 08/21/2025 9:33:26 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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She committed suicide.

This was done on purpose by her.


9 posted on 08/21/2025 9:34:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Show me how they know she purposely did this.


10 posted on 08/21/2025 9:38:58 PM PDT by TheLooseThread
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I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don’t care, so I won’t cry
But you’ll be sorry when I’m dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you’d call it suicide
But I’m too full to swallow my pride
I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stand losing
I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stand losing......
I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stand losing you

-The Police

(Now I know why the BBC banned it)


11 posted on 08/21/2025 9:42:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Likely not deliberate unless she left a note or something.
When you have a breakup, a death of someone close, or some serious event... it’s very distracting and you are far more likely to get in a car wreck, forget something critical, or have another accident.

It’s very real, and professional pilots have to go through a risk assessment form before duty. Too high of an FRAF score and you are pulled off.

Poor kid probably had an accident, unless she left a note.


12 posted on 08/21/2025 10:07:08 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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Thanks for putting out the other side.


13 posted on 08/21/2025 10:13:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway (Well)
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I worked with a nice Russian girl who liked to jump out of perfectly good airplanes.

She asked me to go with her on her 1000th jump, but I declined.
I like to leave airplanes after they have slowly stopped.


14 posted on 08/21/2025 10:25:04 PM PDT by algore
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The fall didn’t kill her.

It was the sudden and rapid deceleration


15 posted on 08/21/2025 10:33:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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The linked article

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/truly-extraordinary-skydiver-fell-15500ft-32321921

has her picture. She’s very attractive, beautiful even. And only 32 years old. WTF, she had no reason to kill herself. Geez


16 posted on 08/21/2025 10:38:10 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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17 posted on 08/21/2025 10:38:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: TheLooseThread

>> Show me how they know she purposely did this.

Well then, please enlighten us — what do YOU say happened?


18 posted on 08/21/2025 10:45:06 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Thank you for posting her pic. I’m currently on a small device without the ability to extract the URL of an image from its site. Memo to self: find a tool that will do that on an iPad.....


19 posted on 08/21/2025 10:49:47 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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It could very well have been an equipment failure or chute packing error.

If she did a bunch of jumps the same day, I mean, why do you love life enough to get 6 jumps in and then sabotage your seventh?

Equipment issues do occur to all levels of divers, sky or sea.


20 posted on 08/21/2025 10:52:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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