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Seattle Skydiver Dies During Stunt In Parachuting Accident
https://957thejet.iheart.com ^ | Apr 20, 2021 | By Zuri Anderson

Posted on 04/21/2021 5:59:47 AM PDT by Red Badger

A recent parachuting accident in Washington left a Seattle man dead, according to KMAS.

A Facebook group called Kapowsin Skydivers said the man who died was 27-year-old Shaznee Riyal of Seattle. According to the Mason County Sheriff's Office, Riyal was jumping with Kapowsin Air Sports with a parachute in Shelton on April 11.

Chief Deputy Ryan Spurling said the skydiver performed a stunt too close to the ground, causing his body to slam "into the earth with great force." Officials said the impact killed Riyal.

The Federal Avian Administration is investigating the incident.

Riyal's family in Sri Lanka started a GoFundMe to support his family. The page said he was the "sole breadwinner" of his family, and this fatal jump was his 80th. As of Tuesday, April 20, the initiative has raised over $47,000.

Here's part of what was written about Riyal on the GoFundMe page:

Shaznee was known for three things: his sense of adventure, his ultra positivity, and his ability to make anyone, even a stranger, feel like a long-lost friend, in the same loving way he spoke my name after not seeing me for six months. He was a mountain biker, a hiker, a skydiver, a brilliant developer, a goofy friend, and a wonderful brother and son.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: kapowsin; skydiver; srilanka
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1 posted on 04/21/2021 5:59:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Gravity never fails.


2 posted on 04/21/2021 6:01:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Red Badger
Chief Deputy Ryan Spurling said the skydiver performed a stunt too close to the ground, causing his body to slam "into the earth with great force."

That will get you every time. Darn gravity!

3 posted on 04/21/2021 6:01:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: HighSierra5

Death by selfie?


4 posted on 04/21/2021 6:03:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

If you’re the sole breadwinner you shouldn’t be taking unnecessary chances. There are a lot of dangerous jobs but skydiving is recreational.


5 posted on 04/21/2021 6:03:36 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Red Badger

It’s not the fall that kills you. it’s the sudden stop at the end.


6 posted on 04/21/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: HighSierra5

32ft per second per second.


7 posted on 04/21/2021 6:04:37 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

Gravity
It’s the law


8 posted on 04/21/2021 6:05:49 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Red Badger

Same thing happened at the airport where I fly a jump plane; guy was hot-dogging it coming down and at about a hundred feet while spinning went horizontal with his ‘chute and wound up dumping the air from his sport ‘chute and came crashing down. Wonder if this guy did the same thing.


9 posted on 04/21/2021 6:06:43 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: Red Badger

Okay, this lover of extreme sports has enough money to have sky-dived 80 times, but couldn’t afford a life insurance policy as the sole breadwinner of his family?


10 posted on 04/21/2021 6:09:12 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Red Badger

“The page said he was the ‘sole breadwinner’ of his family...”

Sometimes extreme sports IS a person’s career, and it would be tough to give it up if you were good at it.

But I can think of other famous extreme sportsters who died and left families, small children behind. It always bugged me, like “Hey, you have small children now...you don’t get to do this crazy stuff anymore!”


11 posted on 04/21/2021 6:09:24 AM PDT by avenir
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Sounds exactly like that.................


12 posted on 04/21/2021 6:10:46 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Here are pics of him https://www.forevermissed.com/shaznee-riyal/about


13 posted on 04/21/2021 6:11:34 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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14 posted on 04/21/2021 6:12:35 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

It was Covid...


15 posted on 04/21/2021 6:13:40 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: HighSierra5

Well... it IS Seattle


16 posted on 04/21/2021 6:17:07 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: Red Badger
RIP Jim O'Brien.


17 posted on 04/21/2021 6:17:32 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: avenir

It seems to me the height of selfishness for someone with a family to be engaging in recreational activity that has the high potential for death even if you do everything right. I’m mainly thinking of rock climbers.


18 posted on 04/21/2021 6:19:21 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: glorgau

You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving. You need a parachute if you want to go skydiving twice.


19 posted on 04/21/2021 6:21:53 AM PDT by artichokegrower (I )
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To: Red Badger

"Trump's fault"


20 posted on 04/21/2021 6:24:57 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The avg 911 response time is 23 mins; the response time of a .357 is 1400 ft/sec)
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