Emanuele Amadori

This report comes from a jumper who inspected the gear Emanuele was jumping without a tracking suit or wingsuit. He had a good track, good delay, reasonable pull altitude. Pilot chute in tow, reached back to pull bridal directly, actively trying to get something out until he disappeared into the trees. Found with canopy out, still neatly folded on the ground beside him, closing loops not broken suggesting pin extraction before impact. Gear was inspected but no obvious cause for a pilot chute in tow was evident. The only thing to note from the gear inspection was that he had a bridal with a wingsuit shrival flap attached. Accounts suggest this shrivel flap was seen tightly bunched up after the jump. It is not known exactly how he had stowed the bridal. It is possible that the bridal was stowed in a way that the shrivel flap snagged during extraction causing it to bunch up and form a solid ball that became wedged somewhere. This scenario might be possible if excess bridal, including the shrivel flap, was tucked under the closing flaps where normally only the last section of bridal between the pin and pouch is tucked. This is only speculation but having a second bridal for non-wingsuit jumps or storing the wingsuit shrivel flap inside the pilot chute where most of the bridal is normally folded could avoid this theoretical scenario.