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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL275
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Impact subterminal (near exit)
- Date:
- 30. 10. 2015
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
- Switzerland › Lauterbrunnen › Middle Melchstuhl
- Exit type:
- Underhung
Personal
- Name:
- Joel Frederick Harris
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Canadian
- Age:
- 43
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Squirrel › Colugo 2
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny Winds light and variable
- Factors:
- Extracted Pilot Chute too late Unstable exit
Description
Information about this fatality has come to light that the jumper in question has possibly slipped on exit and unable to maintain a stable flight he was found underneath the exit in the trees.
More information from his friends
"he was seen falling straight down with only his pilot chute out when he impacted on the tallus.
He was wearing a colugo 2 wing suit. He was found not very far out from the wall, suggesting that he never did get the wing suit flying stable.
Here is a great video made by his friends on the type of guy he was
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