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BASE seasons
50
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:
- BFL336
- Object:
- Antenna
- Cause of death:
- Low pull
- Date:
- 08. 03. 2018
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
- Russian Federation › Moscow › Avsunino
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Nikolay Kovalev
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Russian
- Age:
- 23
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- Apex BASE › FLiK
- Canopy size:
- 254
- Container:
- Apex BASE › Apex DP
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Sunny
- Factors:
- Extracted Pilot Chute too late Aerials
Description
Nikolay started BASE last summer, he made about 50 slider-down jumps. He performed poor gainers, some of them were rather unstable and uncontrolled. He made 2-3 slider-up jumps from this antenna without acrobatic, it was his first slider-up object.
Last time he decided to make a gainer. He could not set the rotation and hovered, then rolled over his side. Then he tried to stabilize and turn away from the antenna. He threw his PC too low, and impacted without canopy.
His story illustrates that too fast progress without proper training leads to a sad final.
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