 | #55 - ??? - Don't let it be you! DO THREE GEAR CHECKS ON EVERY
JUMP, Slider up, Control your lines when packing, Tight line stows,
Stow your brakes correctly, route things correctly. Got a question,
not sure of the correct way to do something, consult owner's manual,
your rigger or the manufacturer,
not your BUDDY and not your PACKER. |
| #54 - 2-March-08 - After exiting the plane from 3500' the plan was to do a
quick 2-way and jumper A was to deploy jumper B via their BOC throw out pilot
chute. the 2-way went well. Jumper A failed to fully extract the
jumper B pilot chute and made a second attempt. Jumper A then got out of
the way and watched while jumper B completed the deployment of his canopy.
Jumper A rolled over on back to observe opening, flipped over, deployed his
main and discovered he had two parachutes. The Cypres AAD had fired
allowing the reserve parachute to deploy. Canopy transfer, land. |
| #53 - 20-Jan-08 - Slider will not come down, unknown, tandem. |
| #52 - 24-June-07 - During climb out jumper dragged pilot chute bridle on
A/C door pulling main pin. Resulting in horse shoe while still on A/C.
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| #51 - 22-June-07 - Tension knots, unable to resolve above hard deck. |
| #50 - 20-June-07 - Unrecoverable line twists on heavily loaded high
performance canopy. |
| #49 - 9-June-07 - Tension knots, unable to resolve above hard deck. |
| #48 - 31-Mar-07 - Unrecoverable line twists. Velocity 97 used
during a bird man jump. |
| #47 - 23-Feb07 - Brakes stowed incorrectly, unable to release braked
after deployment. Unable to clear after several attempts. |
| #46 - 20-Jan-07 - Jumper unable to extract BOC pilot chute. Mirage
container. Tuck tab on top of pilot chute went under bridle (as it was
designed to do). Jumper unable to resolve and deployed reserve at
1800'. |
| #45 - 15-Oct-06 - CREW wrap. |
| #44 - 16-Jul-05 - Jumper in a rush to catch the last load of the day
grabbed his rig by the risers. He had pulled the reserve risers out
slightly in doing so. He got a gear check at the plane. He asked
for another because his risers seemed twisted. He asked a rigger to look
while on the ride up. Rigger noted main risers being twisted and the
reserve risers pulled out slightly (about 1-2 inches). Everything
appeared to be in good order. Upon deployment jumper had two canopies
out which developed into a down plane and he cut away the main. Upon
inspection on the ground the reserve rip cord cable had a sharp bend in it due
to the RSL pulling the reserve cable. The RSL was not connected to the
riser. Somehow the RSL pulled the reserve pin. As yet the reason
for the unconnected RSL being pulled goes unanswered. |
| #43 - 22-May-05 - Jumper wearing very loose sweat shirt to provide drag
for sit-fly jump. Sweat shirt prevent jumper from locating BOC in
time. |
| #42 - A very expired and very current jumper borrowed a friends rig to
try out his canopy. After successful 4-way dive the jumper was unable to
locate the pud and deploy the main parachute. After landing the pud was
in place and undisturbed. |
| #41 - Student pulled reserve rip cord instead of his practice rip cord
during his first PRCP. |
| #40 - Jumper unable to extract pilot chute from BOC. He making the
first jump on a new Mirage. He did not know to pull down and away.
Deployed reserve. |
| #39 - 06-Nov-04 - Suspected line over. |
| #39 - 12-Sep-04 - Flex pin on main broke at swedge resulting in drogue in
tow. |
| #37 - Aug 04 - Slider entangled in lines about half way down in
combination with line twists. |
| #36 - Aug 04 - Jumper threw out BOC pilot chute into a half hitch
resulting in pilot chute being choked through it's center resulting in
insufficient drag to pull bag off back. Effectively a bag lock from the
lack of a pilot chute. **Customer on annual service plan received
free repack of reserve. |
| #35 - July 04 - Jumper failed to tighten leg straps before exit resulting
in jumper being unable to maintain stability during freefall. Jumper was
unable to locate throw out pilot chute. |
| #34 - July 04 - Toggle came off main parachute immediately after
deployment resulting in un-recoverable spin. |
| #33 - Mar 04 - Line over on main. |
| #32 - Aug 03 - Pin on reserve dislodged resulting in reserve deployment at
11,000". |
| #31 - Jumper dislocated shoulder during exit, unable to deploy main with
right arm. Deployed reserve below 1,000' |
| #30 - May 03 - Line over on main canopy. |
| #29 - Apr 03 - Spinning main, cut-a-way resulted in Christmas wrap. |
| #28 - Nov 03 - Slink came un-done on front riser. |
| #27 - Oct 02 - Spinning main during bird-man jump. |
| #26 - Oct 02 - Unknown. |
| #25 - Jun 02 - Spinning main. |
| #24 - June 02 - Line over on main. |
| #23 - Jun 02 - Line over on main canopy. |
| #22 - Nov 01 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #21 - Aug 01 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #20 - July 01 - Dislocated right shoulder, unable to deploy main. |
| #19 - May 01 - Spinning main. |
| #18 - July 00 - Bag lock. |
| #17 - Apr 00 - Loss of altitude awareness, cypres fire. |
| #16 - July 99 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #15 - July 99 - Broken lines on main canopy (hard opening). |
| #14 - June 99 - Broken steering line on main. |
| #13 - May 99 - Main entangled in smoke bracket. |
| #12 - Apr 99 - Low pull resulting in two canopies out. |
| #11 - March 99 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #10 - Feb 99 - Broken lines on tandem main |
| #9 - Jan 99 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #8 - July 98 - Unsecured cut-a-way housing resulted in detached main
riser. |
| #7 - Jun 98 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #6 - Mar 98 - Spinning main canopy. |
| #5 - Mar 98 - Pilot chute in tow. |
| #4 - Mar 97 - Student unable to locate main R/C after two attempts. |
| #3 - Feb 97 - Streamer. |
| #2 - Feb 97 - Low pull resulting in two canopies out. |
| #1 - Jan 97 - Student pulled reserve handle instead of rip cord handle on
their first hop-and-pop. |
