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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When I went to Airborne School the saying was, "During the first week, they separate the men from the boys. During the second week, they separate the idiots from the men, and during the third week, they give the idiots a parachute and let them jump out of an airplane." :-)
Lol. There are those that can and do, and then there’s everybody else. Paratroopers have a disdain for non-airborne soldiers, as US Army Airborne school, Ft. Benning, GA isn’t that difficult.
I prayed (not literally) to be deployed as part of airborne jump into Panama invasion, as combat jump wings are highly desired.
The story of the Studies and Observations Group (SOG), Vietnam, is the most amazing piece of non-fiction military history I’ve ever read, as their mission was bravado TO THE EXTREME. This unit’s existence was classified until the mid-to-late 80s (?), and their mission was mostly recon entirely behind the lines of North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, although they also used “dirty tricks” to disrupt the flow of enemy personnel/ammunition, such as booby trapping ammunition caches/supply lines, etc. Due to the sensitive nature of the missions, these men operated in small teams and were experts at infiltrating by land, sea or air. SOG pioneered the first combat military free fall operation (HALO), but their exfiltration stories are just as amazing, as team members were sometimes chased by hundreds if not thousands of enemy personnel, and couldn’t always get close air support, as the US wasn’t supposed to be in Cambodia, Laos.
Military free fall is inherently more dangerous than static line jumping as the jumper has the sole responsibility for maintaining a stable body position prior to pulling the ripcord, but static line jumping has other risks, like getting entangled with another paratrooper or getting shot by ground personnel.
See if you can find the SOG documentary on the internet, as it would be worth the money. I either recorded it from the history or military channel about 15 years ago.
I’ll bet you would have a hard time finding a pilot who wasn’t glad he had a parachute/ejection seat as backup.
Airborne leads the way.
It’s just supposition. She might have pulled the main while out of position and was wrapped up from the start.
Either way, the chutes are made to NOT fail, if you do your job.
One of my high school classmates died while skydiving. It may have been at this place—not sure. In his case I believe it was because he suffered a heart attack during the jump.
The Torpedo Burrito.
Not a good time to set your altimeter 100 feet from the ground. It is always smart to set it before making a controlled exit from an aircraft while in flight.
One time mistake.
They need to speak to Akmed, the chute folder!
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