BFL502 | 5.12.2024

Katelyn Compton Escott

from Canada34 years

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11

BASE SEASONS

1100

SKYDIVES

Unknown

WS SKYDIVES

550

BASE JUMPS

550

WS BASE JUMPS
  • Date & Time: 5.12.2024, 13:30
  • Location: Canada Day, British Columbia, Canada
  • Category: BASE Fatality
  • Object Type: Earth
  • Cause Of Death: Impact in terminal freefall
  • Clothing - Suit: Aura 5 ultra lightExpert Wingsuit by Squirrel
  • Canopy: 220 Ibex7 Cell - Vented by Squirrel
  • Container: Cirrus2 Pin by Squirrel
  • Packing & Setup: Slider Up PCA Short Start
  • Weather: Winds light and variable
  • Possible Factors: Altitude awareness, Extracted Pilot Chute too late, Proximity flying

What do we believe happened?

We had a chill morning and met 3 other jumpers at the parking lot at 11.00am. We started hiking around 11.15am or so. Chill hike talked about nothing in particular on the walk. Once we got to our exit we assessed the conditions and decided it was nice to jump.
Compton told me more about the jump even though we had talked about the jump quite a bit and walked away from it the day before because it was too windy. We geared up and talked about some flying techniques and different suit shapes.


We called to the other 3 jumpers that were jumping a different exit close by that we were ready. They flew past us, I jumped first and Compton was about 5 seconds behind me. I landed and turned around to only see 3 other canopies in the air and knew things were not good.
The others under canopy watching us fly saw what happened and we ran up the mountain to find her, with 1 staying behind to meet SAR. We got to a climbing section that Spencer was comfortable climbing so the 2 of us waited. He found her at rest quickly and waited with her for SAR to get her down.
As she was entering her line she clipped a tree and sent her into a hard downward spiral into the trees. It was quick and probably painless.

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