Posted on 09/03/2022 7:45:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A TikTok influencer and beauty queen from Toronto, Canada, died after skydiving in her first solo course last weekend.
Tanya Pardazi, 21, fell to her death on August 27 while completing a jump at Skydive Toronto in Innisfil, Ontario. The skydiving school requires students to finish a day of ground training before attempting a solo dive, CTV News Toronto reported.
Pardazi, a philosophy student at the University of Toronto, had opened her parachute too late during her dive.
Skydive Toronto said in a statement posted to Facebook that Pardazi "released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate."
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” Pardazi “released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate.””
I don’t know much about parachuting but my impression is the the main chute should not be quickly rotating and the reserve chute is only deployed if the main fails. Was something wrong here or did she just screw up?
The ethical behavior for her plastic surgeon would have been to refer her to a psychiatrist when she made it clear that she wanted to be morphed into a gelfling.
Tik tik tik splat
I’m a big-time Instagram influencee. I follow over a million influencers.
120 mph to zero in a very short distance.
Hey plastic surgeons got Porsche payments too....
Pardazi, a philosophy student at the University of Toronto, had opened her parachute too late during her dive.
Skydive Toronto said in a statement posted to Facebook that Pardazi “released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate.”
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I thought for a first dive, they attached a static line to ensure the ripcord was pulled as you exit the plane? Apparently not.
I don’t know anything about parachuting. Maybe she just pulled the wrong cord. It’s sad. RIP.
Not if you’re a TikTok influencer, apparently...
>>I’m old fat and bald does that rule me out?<<
Sorry, I don’t make the rules ;)
“Influencer” enhanced lips .... be like me, be like me!
Not to be cruel, I AM sorry she died, especially that young & that way. Surprised first jump isn’t a tandem or maybe a static line where the chute is pulled as you fall away from the plane.
Some of both, I think.
Without reading the details, my guess would be a partial malfunction of the main chute such that the steering was working unevenly. The procedure for something like that would be to detach the main before deploying the reserve so that the two canopies don't get tangled. The whole process requires a good bit of altitude, which is why it's best (especially for a novice) to open the main chute at least a couple thousand feet above the ground. Too low, and you're better off to ride the malfunctioning chute down and hope you don't get hurt too badly. Even a partially working parachute is better than none.
My guess is that this unfortunate woman took too long deciding what to do.
That was the case where I made my few jumps. The first three were static-line jumps at 2500 feet, then a couple where you’d jump, extend into an arch, and immediately pull the ripcord (hop & pop), then gradually increasing periods of free fall. The instructors would decide what a student was ready to do.
I don’t know why this Toronto place would do things differently.
Free jumping after one day of ground school? No static line?
That’s how my former buddy jumpmaster would do it. Absolutely no one would jump the first time other than on a static line, so he could watch them. That included a couple guys who had military jump training but understood he needed to personally evaluate how they handled themselves. Just common sense and risk management.
Apparently, gravity had a bigger influence.
Fame used to be an unavoidable and often unintended consequence of actually being very good and/or talented at something…. Now it is the goal in and of itself…
Don’t dismiss the impact she has
1 DAY of training?! And they don’t give them any of the various automatic systems?! Dude. That’s just begging to kill somebody.
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