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BASE seasons
30
BASE jumps
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WS BASE jumps
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Skydives
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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL118
- Object:
- Antenna
- Cause of death:
- Malfunction, Misrigging
- Date:
- 13. 09. 2007
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
- Brazil › Porto Alegre › Encantado
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Marcelo Dutra
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Brazilian
- Age:
- —
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
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- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Down-Off
- Deployment:
- Static Line
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Winds light and variable
- Factors:
- Gear failure
Description
Marcelo was an outdoor enthusiast known as a climber, a rafting guide, a skydiver, and an well experienced paraglider pilot. He was new to BASE with around 30 jumps. Marcelo climbed a 180 foot antenna this evening. It was to be a static line jump and Marcelo chose to remove his pilot chute. He tied rope to the tower, and then his bridle to the rope using break-cord. The rope's knot to the tower came undone when he jumped and trailed behind him him even popping the pins of his container. Marcelo died from impact. Hindsight is 20/20: Always check your knots and think twice before removing a pilot chute even for a PCA or static-line.
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