...Wonder what they talked about on the way down...?
The Knights that say “Nii”
Was the deceased a Freeper? Trying to figure out why it was posted. Maybe just another display of bad judgement and bad taste?
But if your interested in the statistics, this was published in 2016:
The most up to date skydiving statistics come from 2014, when the USPA recorded 24 fatal skydiving accidents. There were 3.2 million jumps in total that year, making for a total of 0.0075 fatalities per 1,000 jumps.
Tandem skydiving has an even better safety record, with 0.003 student fatalities per 1,000 tandem jumps over the past ten years.
That's 3 in a million. Disclosure: I have 'survived' over 7000 skydives over about the last 37 years. I trained in the military early on, but almost all of those were for sport or teaching. I went on to be an aviator and while I continued in the sport, jumping out of the plane is frowned upon in the general pilot community.
So it was a double fault?
I know the family quite well, and respected citizens in the San Jose area. They are obviously quite devastated, and I feel for them. Last name is pronounced like “knee”. The missing story is what caused the instructor to steer into the icy lake, rather than land.