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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL318
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Impact subterminal (near exit)
- Date:
- 26. 05. 2017
- Time:
- 12:00
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Richard Lidstrom
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Swedish
- Age:
- 35
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- Squirrel › Outlaw light
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- Squirrel › Crux
- Suit:
- Squirrel › Freak 2
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Medium winds
- Factors:
- Unstable exit Crosswinds on exit
Description
Wingsuit jump from Pilastro.
Flying a Freak 2. Incident occurred at approximately noon local time.
Wind at exit was jumpers right to left crosswind around 7 mph.Jumper at exit point reported that the exit was noticeably head low. Jumper in LZ saw him corkscrew and then the suit flew him into the wall about 4 seconds after exit.
Canopy deployed after impact and slid, then hung up on the cliff.Both eyewitnesses—the jumper in the LZ who saw and the last jumper at exit—have more than 500 jumps and more than 10 years in sport.
Both are experienced BASE wingsuit pilots.Mountain rescue was called immediately, and a helicopter arrived approximately 10 minutes after the incident. A rescue team was landed on the top of the cliff, and a rescuer rappelled to the canopy. Extrication took approximately 2 hours from the time of the incident, and the jumper was pronounced dead on site by the coroner.
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