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To: nickcarraway
Its not for everyone...

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.

12 posted on 01/15/2018 4:24:17 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

What does a fraction of a fatality look like?


17 posted on 01/15/2018 8:48:56 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
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