BFL340 | 16.6.2018

Paula Liljegren

from Sweden27 years

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2

BASE SEASONS

2000

SKYDIVES

Unknown

WS SKYDIVES

70

BASE JUMPS

Unknown

WS BASE JUMPS
  • Date & Time: 16.6.2018, 17:00
  • Location: Katthammeran, Eikesdalen, Norway
  • Category: BASE Fatality
  • Object Type: Earth
  • Cause Of Death: Low pull
  • Clothing - Suit: Original Tracking suit two pieceTracking Suit by Phoenix-Fly
  • Canopy: 225 Mayhem7 Cell - Vented by Bad Seed BASE
  • Container: Zak 22 Pin by Adrenalin BASE
  • Packing & Setup: Slider Up BOC Overhang
  • Weather: Winds light and variable
  • Possible Factors: Emergency low pull, Extracted Pilot Chute too late

What do we believe happened?

Information coming from the jumper on exit watching the entire sequence of events.
This was to be Paula’s first terminal tracking jump - slider up.
Super stable exit, but does not really get the track going, so she did not come over the island in the middle of katthammaren she went between the ledge on the right and the island and impacted in between.
My guess is that her visuals were at the landing and that she did not see the ledge coming.
Makes emergency pull, has about 2 sec under canopy (180 opening) before impact.
She was super experienced skydiver and a very safe jumper always, really hard for any of us to understand how this happened, because this was her first jump from a slider up cliff, and among us who knew her we know she is a high puller, and never pushes the limits.

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