A turbine conversion 206 was lost this past Saturday May 25, 2024 in Butler Missouri by premature reserve deployment into tail while jumper was in door. It was a miracle the jumper survived. Tail was bent and tail twisted by the entanglement. By some miracle the reserve was cleared. All 6 jumpers and 1 pilot jumped to safety, but plane was total loss
Given that she was an AFF Student, shouldn't she have done a practice pull or two? That might have helped her overcome some of the other issues brought up; poor body position and ill-fitting gear.
I have a genuine question, wouldn’t it be wiser to disconnect your rsl and then cutaway, in order to get as far as possible from that mess before deploying your reserve?
I don't know much about skydiving and canopies but if he were to have a knife, wouldn't he have been able to cut the other canopy once he was stable with the other assuming he could reach it?
God so many things could've gone wrong. He could've literally gotten his hand friction burned off, torm the flesh from his hand, gotten the hand caught and pulled it off, the carabiner clup could've been burned and broken, I was worried the rope would snap, his chute could've had an error opening or gotten stuck when he jumped... That's so scary.
It's always good to have someone look at your gear before boarding if it's new (to you ) gear. Many years ago a girl ran past me trying to get to the airplane and I just saw here for a few seconds, but I had this feeling I saw something that wasn't correct. I paused for a few seconds trying to figure out what I saw. I shouted at her when she was probably 5-10 m from me, and she turned around. She had the weight belt outside the MLW and therefor over the cut-away and reserve handles.
I experienced this. A modification that wasn't done very well, and my left leg strap stitching broke on opening. Almost chopped, realised it was flying, just skew. Braking one side to straight ahead invoked a stall. So just spiralled in on the edge into sand luckily. I was a little bit shaky after that. Probably around jump 50 after static line progression. Good Times around the fire that evening.
@vilhokivihalme9878 I think the point is that if this jumper had a freefly friendly rig, this likely wouldn't have happened. Any jumper can end up in an orientation other than belly to earth. Having a fff rig can prevent bad things from happening.
@@ryanscutt8783 Yes, but I was trying to make a the point that this is definitely just a loose BOC and/or an error in pilot chute packing. Yes, the slim freefly handle can help, but whatever gear you are using, a simple barrer roll or backflip should not deploy you pilot chute.
