Javier Contreras

33-Year-Old Venezuelan

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BFL332 BFL334

BASE seasons

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BASE jumps

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WS BASE jumps

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Skydives

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WS skydives

Incident

Incident category:: BASE Fatality
ID:: BFL333
Object:: Earth
Cause of death:: Unable to pull
Date:: 09. 01. 2018
Time:: 10:00
Exit point:: Switzerland › Lauterbrunnen › Via Ferrata
Other incidents at this location: BFL142, BFL144, BFL170, BFL184, BFL193, BFL222, BFL370, BFL391
Exit type:: Vertical

Personal

Name:: Javier Contreras
Gender:: Male
Nationality:: Venezuelan
Age:: 33
Experience:: —

Equipment & Setup

Canopy:: —
Canopy size:: —
Container:: —
Suit:: Phoenix-Fly › Vampire Sukhoi
Packing:: Slider Up
Deployment:: BOC

Circumstances

Weather:: Sunny
Factors:: Unable to locate pilot chute

Description

The information that we have been given so far is that he flew a left line then turned back over the valley floor and never pulled. GoPro footage shows him jumping from Via Ferrata good clean exit, nice flight, bit on the slow side. Clearly shows a series of attempts to find and deploy the PC resulting in a failure to do so