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Originally posted by minestrone View Post...TBH anyone that dies after jumping out of a plane should be considered suicide no matter how many chutes they have.
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostOlu Deniz ?
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I’ve been paragliding from a mountain in Turkey a couple of times, it's rather reassuring that the canopy is 'up' before you leave the ground.
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostMate was at a schoolboy rugby tournament today. They had the local skydivers put on a show before the main game. Unfortunately some poor chaps chute never opened and he landed and died just behind the main stadium. Not something I have ever tried, any adrenalin junkies on this forum? I thought it was extremely uncommon these days for both the main and the reserve chute to fail?
My brother has done loads as he was a major in 1 para. I think the chances of failure are part of the fun. But then he enjoyed the cresta run : something that even Clarkson found scary.
I prefer to stay home with the kids. Doing my knitting.
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Originally posted by rhubarb View PostVery uncommon. In fact the reserve chute should open of its own accord as soon as you get below a certain altitude.
Rhubarb.
Oracle, I am assuming that your mate lives in South Africa?
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One of my friends Father died parachuting when in the army, they expected to make a jump in Germany in the 70s but the officer in charge got the wind direction wrong and a bunch of them landed in the Rhine, when they found the body they found he had been strangled by the cords as he was washed down stream.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostISTR something similar happened several years ago, and at first the police were suspicious it might have been murder (someone sabotaging the shute).
I don't think the case was ever solved conclusively, but it became increasingly clear the shute had indeed been sabotaged - by the guy who was killed, in other words a bizarre suicide.
This could well be the same, and if so what an antisocial twat!
TBH anyone that dies after jumping out of a plane should be considered suicide no matter how many chutes they have.
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ISTR something similar happened several years ago, and at first the police were suspicious it might have been murder (someone sabotaging the shute).
I don't think the case was ever solved conclusively, but it became increasingly clear the shute had indeed been sabotaged - by the guy who was killed, in other words a bizarre suicide.
This could well be the same, and if so what an antisocial twat!
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostFair enough. Not about cojones for me. Regardless of skill or ones ability to 'hack it' it seems the more jumps you do the increased likelihood that something will go wrong. I enjoy other things in life sufficiently that this I can do without.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostI think the implied message was more - if you don't have the cojones take up knitting
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