Aude-Marianne Bertucci

32-Year-Old French

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BFL153 BFL155

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WS skydives

Incident

Incident category:: BASE Fatality
ID:: BFL154
Object:: Earth
Cause of death:: Object strike under canopy
Date:: 25. 07. 2010
Time:: —
Exit point:: United States of America › Washington › Mt Baring
Other incidents at this location: BFL392, BFL524
Exit type:: Vertical

Personal

Name:: Aude-Marianne Bertucci
Gender:: Female
Nationality:: French
Age:: 32
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:: Not enough forward seperation on exit 180 Offheading

Description

Aude was making her first Earth jump, and from what has been reported this was her first BASE object other than the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, ID.
There were no witnesses to the incident as the exit point is small and sloping down making it impossible to see what is going on for the any of the other jumpers ready to go. What we know is that she went slider up and her body was recovered above Jeff's Knob (See BFL Jeff Barker).

Very rarely do non-wingsuiters make it past this outcropping. is that Aude opened and either had a 180 (most likely) with slow reaction time and possibly still close to the wall, or a line over causing cliff strike.