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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL19
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Skydive Gear Used
- Date:
- 17. 02. 1989
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) › Venezuela › Angel Falls
Other incidents at this location: BFL25
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Jean-Marc Boivin
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- French
- Age:
- —
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Deployment Bag
- Deployment:
- —
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny
- Factors:
- 180 Offheading Line twists
Description
This report is from a witness. I was there at Salto Angel, and I can say nobody saw the entire jump. Considering the trauma Jean-Marc experienced (he died from wounds in his legs and the loss of a lot of blood) I can tell you he hit the wall, for sure.
Jean-Marc is jumping a very small canopy, a skydiving reserve canopy with a attachment point, called the Vega 180. The canopy is packed in a deployment bag. Speculation is he had severe line twists after opening, hit the wall, and then experienced a hard out of control landing in the trees.
Previous to Jean-Marc's leap another jumper, named Catherine, had jumped and also hit the wall. The helicopter (there to ferry jumpers up to the top) mistook Jean-Marc's waves for help as a sign he was all right and went off to rescue Catherine. When it returned Jean-Marc is dead. Jean-Marc was a modern day adventurer who excelled at many disciplines.
In 1988, he is the first to Parapente (Paraglide) from the summit of Mt. Everest.
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