Oleg Kudria

This report comes from a jumping mate of Oleg's: Oleg was an experienced skydiver and had 64 BASE jumps. He came to Lautebrunnen as a part of the Ukrainian team. Oleg jumped 2-way (Oleg was lower) from Yellow Ocean. On the video we can see that he was in good tracking position and prepare to throw pilot chute on the 7-8 seconds (his hand moves to the pc). After pitching he goes into boxman and was waiting for the opening. In this position he fell down into the trees. The container remains closed until impact. He dies immediately. On the next day we checked his base gear and found that the pilot chute was collapsed. The bridle had made a knot around the pilot chute. Our guess is that Oleg took out his pilot chute and before throwing he held on to it for a bit. During this time the bridle was in air and it was ?dancing? and either created a loop around the PC then or while he let go. Suggestion: Don?t hold PC if you pull it ? throw immediately.