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1 posted on 04/21/2021 1:19:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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"the chute failed to fully open"

And the backup chute?
2 posted on 04/21/2021 1:26:05 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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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.


3 posted on 04/21/2021 1:32:03 AM PDT by princeofdarkness ( )
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Things Got bad and things got worse and I guess you
will know the tune,

Oh! Lord stuck in Lodi again


5 posted on 04/21/2021 1:38:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Do the chutes say “Acme” on the outside?


9 posted on 04/21/2021 2:20:59 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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The school jumpmaster:


12 posted on 04/21/2021 3:06:43 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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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.


13 posted on 04/21/2021 3:27:17 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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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.


14 posted on 04/21/2021 3:34:54 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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Oh well, it was fun for about a minute.

T = sqrt(2d/g)


15 posted on 04/21/2021 3:42:51 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Less than one death per year. And another question: Was there an emergency parachute as backup?


16 posted on 04/21/2021 3:43:58 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!s)
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“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?


18 posted on 04/21/2021 3:57:16 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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Our father was amazing. He fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam as a pilot, and went into the jungle with the Green Berets. He never, ever jumped out of his plane as long as it still had wings and a tail.

He had many favorite sayings, and one of my favorites is ‘There are only two kinds of people that jump out of airplanes, idiots, and people in the armed forces.’


25 posted on 04/21/2021 4:42:59 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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Skydiving is risky. Skydivers accept the risk so they can get their thrill. If you skydive you can die.


26 posted on 04/21/2021 4:47:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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The FAA does not investigate to determine the cause of the event...

So what is the point of the investigation if the root cause of a fatal accident is not determined?


29 posted on 04/21/2021 5:02:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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California is an open state for marijuana
.


35 posted on 04/21/2021 5:57:22 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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There’s a song about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL4aCWD-p58 starting at about 1:25


36 posted on 04/21/2021 5:57:38 AM PDT by PAR35
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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.


44 posted on 04/21/2021 6:44:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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They need to speak to Akmed, the chute folder!


48 posted on 04/21/2021 8:52:59 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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