Tyler Stimson

This is information from the other jumper on this load. Stimson was on this tower that he had jumped before and was mentoring a fellow Navy Seal. The plan was that they would both do static line jumps like they had done before. Tylers mentor student went first, and had an uneventful deployment and landing near the base of the tower. Now the rest of this is speculation based on events from the other jumper. The student believes that Stimson, while rigging his bridle and static line apparatus had his bridle wrapped around one of his lower extremities. upon exiting the bridle pulled tight un-yoyo'ing stimson and extraced his pins and pulled his canopy around the path of the bridle wrap. During this event this caused Stimson's canopy to wrap around his body as he fell to the base of the tower with a canopy wrap situation. There could be two possibilities, either the static line for some reason held and pulled the canopy to its fatal location, or the static line broke due to weight stress, and the pilot chute pulled the canopy around the body during freefall. This is the 5th static line related fatality. Check your rigging, and clear your bridle!