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Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL107
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Object strike under canopy
- Date:
- 27. 12. 2006
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
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Italy › Arco › Brento (ITW)
Other incidents at this location: BFL51, BFL54, BFL58, BFL59, BFL75, BFL88, BFL152, BFL164, BFL166, BFL194, BFL236, BFL237, BFL249, BFL255, BFL316, BFL337, BFL348, BFL359, BFL374, BFL388, BFL476, BFL487
- Exit type:
- Overhang
Personal
- Name:
- Edgar Kraus
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- German
- Age:
- —
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny Winds light and variable
- Factors:
- Extracted Pilot Chute too late Focusing on filming
Description
A jumper on the load has reported this as a two-way with Edgar launching on his back and filming the upper jumper. The second jumper tracked out and over Edgar after about three seconds, and watched as he attempted to turn face to earth which he says was done while very unstable. The witness also mentioned Edgar wasn't wearing a jumpsuit or tracking clothes. The second jumper opened and when he looked back he saw that Edgar's canopy had hit the wall and it and Edgar were now falling the rest of the way. This is the fifth fatality to involving flying back to earth with camera. Edgar was a well liked and experienced BASE jumper who's death, I hope, will unfortunately yet mercifully, end the single most disastrous year in BASE jumping's 27-year history. We lost thirteen brothers and sisters to 2006 and that should give us all pause to ponder what we are doing. The true consequences, of course, are visited onto the families of those jumpers, but it should reinforce in all of us to be as careful as possible. I don't know what the true answer is, or how we go about making the sport safer, but I do know we could all slow down a little bit, and we can, and should, temper our bravado around each other and especially around newer and would-be BASE jumpers.
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