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BASE seasons
2000
BASE jumps
1400
WS BASE jumps
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Skydives
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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL280
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Impact in terminal freefall
- Date:
- 13. 03. 2016
- Time:
- —
- Exit type:
- Underhung
Personal
- Name:
- Patrick Kerber
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Swiss
- Age:
- 35
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- Apex BASE › Lobo
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Unspecified › Unknown - Unspecified WS
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Medium winds Low level clouds
- Factors:
- Not enough forward seperation on exit Clipped ledge after exiting
Description
Initial police report states,
At the time of the deceased jumping there was bad weather in the area with lots of low level fog. This could of increased the chance of impact from low visibility.
The deceased was found in the valley below the jumping point impacted.
Please note that If you are going to jump by yourself always have a check in and out procedure , either telling your loved one a message will be sent before and after or better still jump with others,
This helped the initial investigation as this is exactly what patrick had done every jump with his Friends having a message before and after the jump and the rescuers found Patrick in a timely fashion..
One more thing on Patrick
He was a highly experienced and skilled big wall alpine wingsuit jumper and very familiar with this exitpoint in question (as he had opened it and jumped it years before it came into the general public´s knowledge)
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