Posted on 03/25/2010 7:07:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PORT ARANSAS, Texas (AP) -- A skydiver whose parachute collapsed as he was photographing skydiving tandems has died after crashing through a condo roof in Texas.
Witnesses say the man's parachute opened but collapsed when he turned into the wind to land in Port Aransas, a coastal town about 15 miles northeast of Corpus Christi.
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Well, that sucks. But then, skydiving and shark swimming come with inherent disclaimers.
Somewhere, some moron is saying, “He died doing what he loved to do.” What? Dying?
How safe is this hobby when a good chute can just collapse.
Add to that, climbing Everest because you have enough money.
Let me say it again; They don’t make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out of it.
how in the world do you find all these bizarre stories that you post?
I jumped in the early 80’s. Square chutes want to open but can collapse. Round chutes didn’t always want to open, but once there, stayed there.
It’s a lot safer than one would think. My dropzone at the time had been open since 1968 and had it’s first fatality about a year ago.
I would much rather jump out of an airplane than fly in one, and.. I have. And no, I’m not D.B. Cooper.
>how in the world do you find all these bizarre stories that you post?
I’m unemployed - at the moment ;-{)
But not unappreciated.
Have you seen his bizarre pics he loves to decorate his threads with.
: )
At least you’ll have health insurance now. ;-D
Not to mention, after his chute collapsed, you know the poor bloke’s not thinking to himself, “oh, how I love this.”
Turbulence likely could collapse them. If he was coming in low near buildings he might have caught a rotor or he caught the edge of a thermal. It likely would have reopened if he had enough altitude.
I took paragliding lessons for while but when I saw how they could so easily collapse in turbulence I dropped out. I want my airfoils to stay in one place in flight.
The chute can collapse when misused. No failure on the part of the chute. You have to keep the air moving through the chute in the proper direction. Because it's not rigid, it you stall it, it will collapse. If you are high enough you can recover, but if not and are still too high to survive the fall... well that's the way it goes.
>At least you’ll have health insurance now.
Gee thanks but
I’d rather have my old job back.
Not me, takes a special sort of crazy to unass a perfectly good airplane. But there are plenty of those in the Army Airborne, AF para rescue and pathfinders, Navy SEALS, and well. all Marines are crazy anyway, even if they don't jump out of airplanes.
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