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| Blue skies and safe landings ! | [Aktualisiert: 16. November 2000]
| Skydiver's Body Found after Night Jump On September 15, authorities in Sussex County, New Jersey, recovered the body of a 24-year-old skydiver from Italy who disappeared the night before after jumping out of a small plane 5,000 feet over northwestern New Jersey. Gianni Lattarico was found at 12:45 p.m. off Compton Road in Wantage. Hours earlier, searchers had located his parachute and harness hanging in a tall evergreen tree about a quarter-mile away. How the body and a parachute with the harness got separated is a mystery.
On Thursday evening Lattarico took off in a small plane from Sussex Airport in Wantage with three other skydivers for a night jump. At 9:15 p.m.. The three others leapt from the plane, followed by Lattarico. After he failed to land in the drop zone, the other skydivers called for help.
Lattarico's main chute never deployed, as police stated, but the reserve chute had opened. It's not clear if the skydiver or the AAD (automatic deployment) opened the reserve. Authorities were trying to determine if a sharp jolt from the automatic deployment could have ripped Lattarico out of his harness. Officials who examined Lattarico's equipment in the tree said it appeared the harness was buckled, which is strange, to say the least. The invetigators are going under the assumption there was some major malfunction with the chute.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration will examine the parachute to determine whether it was packed properly. According to the owner of Skydive Sussex, a parachuting operation based at Sussex Airport, a preliminary inspection of the chute determined it was in perfect operating condition. It was the first fatality at Skydive Sussex since it opened in Wantage in 1994. | * * *
| Fatality in Elsinore Sixty-eight-year-old Judy Bieloh of Long Beach, CA, died Sunday, September 17, when her parachute apparently failed to open. Reportedly, witnesses observed her having difficulty during her jump and spiralling to the ground. She landed on a nearby motocross track and died immediately upon impact.
Judy Bieloh was a member of the Skydivers Over Sixty [SOS], a group of parachutists who set a California record in 1997 for the most divers age 60 and over to participate in a free-fall formation. Bieloh and her husband, Donald, were among ten other SOS sky divers who set the record of 22 60-and-over sky divers on March 22 of that year. They had planned to go out with SOS and try to break the record again on the following Saturday. | * * *
Kansas Skydiver Killed When Chute Fails To Open
by J.E. Van Natta, S&TA - stiletto135@axs.netSaturday, September 30, Troy Pipkin exited the Cessna 182 at approximately 9500 AGL. The plan was to freefly a 4-way with one sitflyer and three bellyflyers. On exit, the group experienced a great deal of separation and Troy began to dive at the sitfly base. Troy was unsuccessful at docking on the base and was observed at approximately 4000 AGL, slightly above one of the other jumpers, turning and tracking away. Another jumper deployed his canopy at approximately 3500 AGL and while watching the deployment, observed Troy fall past him, approximately 50 feet away, in a belly-to-earth position. He continued in what appeared to be a stable position until just before impact.
Investigation at the scene indicated that neither the main or reserve canopy had been deployed prior to impact. The container was equipped with a Cypres approximately two months ago, however it appears that the unit had not been activated prior to the jump.
The true cause of this accident will never be known. We only hope that this accident reinforces your commitment and efforts to use all of the tools you have available during your skydives and, above all else, to maintain your altitude awareness and execute your emergency procedures in a timely manner.
Troy's family asks that any expressions of sympathy be in the form of memorials to a scholarship fund for Ryan and Megan Pipkin, Troy's children. Memorials may be sent to the Bath-Naylor Funeral Home, 522 South Broadway, Pittsburg, Kansas, 66762. 316-231-4700. Troy was a full time fireman and any department wishing to assist is asked to donate to the children's scholarship fund. | * * *
| Longtime Skydiver, Jerry Schrimsher, Dies of Heart Attack Immediately after completing a jump on October 14, longtime skydiver Jerry Schrimsher died of a heart attack at Skydive Dallas in Texas. Schrimsher, 65 years old, was seen smiling in freefall after successfully completing an 8-way with some friends. Witnesses reported, however, seeing Schrimsher hanging limp in his harness, making no apparent effort to release its brakes or fly the canopy.
The medical examiner has attributed Jerry's death to a massive heart attack. Jerry Schrimsher will be remembered for the active skydiver he was, having skydived since 1959. Much of his focus in the sport was on safety and training. | * * *
| Deployment Collission Kills Canadian Jumper At Skydive Superior in Wisconsin on October 1st, a Canadian jumper, Dennis Comeau, aged 46, died from head injuries which he suffered during a deployment collision.
Reportedly, Comeau was making a 4-way RW jump and notified the group that he would be opening higher than usual because of a hard opening on his previous jump. After turning 360 degrees on break-off, Comeau deployed his main at 3,500 feet. Another jumper was above Comeau and the two then collided as their canopies inflated.
It is believed that Comeau was knocked unconcious during the collision and was still unconscious with his brakes unstowed when he landed in a swampy area on the DZ. He was still alive on landing, but died later in a nearby hospital where he never regained consciousness. The skydiver had nearly 200 jumps in over five years in the sport. |
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