Re:Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
by htfu on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:14PM
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Wait, you're not exactly sure whether your instructor died or not?
Just how drunk were you? Mushrooms are way more rewarding anyways.
Re:Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
by digikazi on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:25PM
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Not very drunk at all :)
The instructor's name was Andrew Kelly, and the time was May 1998 [1] - quite a long time ago, so forgive my foggy memory. I wasn't on that particular load; I had already done my first jump a few days before...and my second jump 3 days after he passed.
[1] - http://www.skydivingfatalities.info/search.asp?MinDate=5%2F8...
However, almost everyone else on my course was - they were really young as well, a bit naive and maybe a little dazed by the idea of jumping out of a plane. Some of them were Chinese/Korean students, with a very, very rudimentary grasp of the English language; I genuinely have no idea how they all passed the course, but they did. When they went on to jump, I think just under half of them ended up with broken legs/sprained ankles and so on. If my memory serves me right during the same drop the jumpmaster managed to kill himself too.
To sum up, 11% sounds about right.