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BFL160 · 30.12.2010

Mike Mercyless Marko

Hungarian

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Incident

Incident category:
BASE Fatality
ID:
BFL160
Object:
Earth
Cause of death:
Low pull
Date:
30. 12. 2010
Time:
Exit point:
Switzerland › Lauterbrunnen › High Ultimate No Ramp

Other incidents at this location: BFL253, BFL302, BFL326, BFL433

Exit type:
Underhung

Personal

Name:
Mike Mercyless Marko
Gender:
Male
Nationality:
Hungarian
Age:
Experience:

Equipment & Setup

Canopy:
Canopy size:
Container:
Suit:
Unspecified › Unknown - Unspecified WS
Packing:
Slider Up
Deployment:
BOC

Circumstances

Weather:
Sunny Winds light and variable
Factors:
Unstable exit Clipped ledge after exiting

Description

This report comes from a jumper on the scene:

That morning 8 of us went up to high ultimate ramp, 4 tracking jumpers, 4 wingsuiters. He exited last, solo wingsuit jump. I did not see his jump, was stashing my gear, only heard the strike. According to eye witnesses at landing (3 Belgian jumpers) he got unstable right after the exit, they did not see if he hit the first positive part, so he probably did not get unstable of hitting the cliff in freefall. Then he was in spin and roll for a long time, he could not fix the position, then he pulled, but too late, he struck the ledge at the 1/3rd of the cliff (down at around 250m level) before canopy inflation. After the strike the canopy opened, and he flew down close to the river, landed on a tree already dead.

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