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WS skydives
Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL359
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Impact in terminal freefall
- Date:
- 03. 11. 2018
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
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Italy › Arco › Brento (ITW)
Other incidents at this location: BFL51, BFL54, BFL58, BFL59, BFL75, BFL88, BFL107, BFL152, BFL164, BFL166, BFL194, BFL236, BFL237, BFL249, BFL255, BFL316, BFL337, BFL348, BFL374, BFL388, BFL476, BFL487
- Exit type:
- Overhang
Personal
- Name:
- Rudolf Ioan Ivan Popescu
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Romanian
- Age:
- 40
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Up
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Winds light and variable
- Factors:
- Not enough forward seperation on exit 180 Offheading Line twists
Description
Information from one of his friends
Uneventful exit , 5 second track . Stop flare and pull. After that he was seen spinning rapidly and fighting severe line twists. Hard impact on the talus.
His main sport was paragliding.
This was his second trip to Brento. Had jumped from Paragliders, buildings, bridges and cliffs
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