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Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL100
- Object:
- Span
- Cause of death:
- Low pull
- Date:
- 29. 05. 2006
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
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United States of America › Twin Falls, Idaho › Perrine
Other incidents at this location: BFL64, BFL79, BFL105, BFL112, BRFRH, BFL174, BFL252, BFL254, BFL284, BFL377, BFL475
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Shannon Carmel Dean
- Gender:
- Female
- Nationality:
- American
- Age:
- 34
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Down-Off
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny Medium winds
- Factors:
- Gear failure Pilot Chute Entanglement - PC in tow
Description
This was Shannon's 4th jump at an annual Memorial weekend event in Twin Falls. She did a good launch and a stable face to earth delay before encountering a problem in deploying her stowed pilot chute. Witness reports state she reached for the pilot chute and either missed it or lost her grip - while extracting it from the BOC. One witness stated her last attempt to deploy the pilot chute resulted in it (the pilot chute) getting on her back and hesitating. The final result was an impact with essentially nothing out. Shannon, as evidenced by the outpouring from within the BASE community, was a special person whos zest for life influenced all who came in contact with her. It must also be mentioned that this year's event in Twin Falls saw marginal weather conditions and less jumps made than in previous years, yet there was a serious up-tick in the amount of injuries sustained by jumpers in general. There are some saying this bridge is a cakewalk as far as BASE jumps go - but all well thinking BASE jumpers know better than to apply the word cakewalk to any BASE jump. Note: Shannon has become the 100th BASE jumping fatality since the first one occurred twenty five years ago in 1981.
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