Posted on 04/21/2021 1:19:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Yet another skydiver has died at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center.
The skydiving school in San Joaquin County is now the site of 22 recorded deaths since opening in 1981. Nine of those deaths have occurred since 2016, according to the FAA.
The woman, identified as 57-year-old Sabrina Call of Watsonville by the San Joaquin County coroner, died on Saturday afternoon, officials said. A parachutist who jumped with her called the sheriff's office reporting that the victim's parachute became tangled.
"We're sad, but it's just like a car wreck or anything else. You have to go on," owner Bill Dause, who was ordered to pay $40 million in March in connection with a previous fatality at his center, told KCRA Monday.
The sheriff's office said that the woman was a "very experienced" skydiver.
"What was reported to us from someone who witnessed the [incident]… was that the chute failed to fully open as she was coming down and it was heavily tangled around her," the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said.
The FAA is investigating, but said their investigations are limited to inspections of the parachute rigging.
"Federal Aviation Administration investigations of skydiving events are limited to inspecting the parachute rigging. The FAA does not investigate to determine the cause of the event,” they said in a statement.
This accident comes one month after the parachute center was ordered to pay $40 million in connection with a deadly jump there five years ago.
On Aug. 6, 2016, Tyler Turner, an 18-year-old from Los Banos who had just graduated high school with a 4.3 grade point average, went skydiving for the first time to celebrate a friend's birthday.
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“”We’re sad, but it’s just like a car wreck or anything else. You have to go on,” owner Bill Dause, who was ordered to pay $40 million in March in connection with a previous fatality at his center, told KCRA Monday.”
This guy is a moron. His attorney must be going crazy with stupid statements like this. Maybe he is not at fault for the poor woman’s fate but he is just asking for trouble after just going through paying a huge settlement.
How long will he keep getting insurance?
Things Got bad and things got worse and I guess you
will know the tune,
Oh! Lord stuck in Lodi again
That is the first thing I thought as well. You shouldn’t say anything except to your lawyer.
Exactly. How tone deaf.
“stuck in Lodi again”...very good...
Kid dies to celebrate someone else’s birthday. 4.3 grade average..? How ironic, but pitiful.
Do the chutes say “Acme” on the outside?
Did they have dirt on the Clintons or Epstein?
So you voluntarily jump out of a perfectly good airplane....and you die. 22 sounds pretty good in the odds department over that many years.
Turns out the guy they hired misunderstood the question. They asked him if he was a certified parachute packer. He thought they said fudge-packer.
T = sqrt(2d/g)
Less than one death per year. And another question: Was there an emergency parachute as backup?
“On Aug. 6, 2016, Tyler Turner, an 18-year-old from Los Banos who had just graduated high school with a 4.3 grade point average”
If they’re saying he was some kind of genius for getting a 4.3 GPA (whatever that means), then why was he jumping out of perfectly good airplanes?
Without knowing the particulars of this case, some people deploy the backup without releasing the main chute - resulting in two tangled chutes (and death).
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