cloudseeker2001

it seems to me that mostly females fall out of their rigs from improper chest strap.....i have cought one myself on the plane! check the fatalities page for years past. i think about 4 in the last 4 years.

i saw shane crash. i was sitting in a chair in front of the hanger next to the concrete pad and i could see his canopy the entire time-but not his body because he was behind the corner of the hanger. before his crash, he was flying north down the east side of the hanger and along the beer line and between 70-100 feet in the air the canopy hooked sharply 180 into the east(the wind was out of the east and very low). at this point in time his body was behind the corner of the hanger but i could see his canopy clearly. when i raised up out of the chair, i saw him hit the ground, bounce up about 3 feet, do a 180(his body) and he came to rest on all 4's facing east. the impact left 4 inch deep divots in the dry ground! an EMT was jumping there(i have never seen this guy before) and he cut shane's rig off and rolled him over on his back, put a neck brace on him and performed basic emergency care. it was clear shane was hurt bad. he was completely out for about 10 minutes and when he did wake up he knew his name but that was about it. he kept telling the people who were giving him emergency care that he wanted to be rolled over on his belly and that he could not breath. then he tried to get up a few times but about 4 people were holding him down. at some point in time someone told him he was hurt real bad and to stay still-it did not help and he was still trying to move and even yelled at people to let him go. it took forever(20 minutes maybe more) for the angleton EMS to get there, but not long after that life flight showed up and took him away. he had his camera rig on and i saw the video and it was not nice-he jumped from the cessna and i am 100% sure it was a hop-n-pop and no tandems on that load at all. based on what i saw, i cannot help but to believe that he was trying some kind of high performance landing. the person who showed me the video said he had a riser in his hand-it can be seen in the video for a second-but it looked like a toggle to me. at any rate, it was a RADICAL canopy manuver too low to the ground and nothing soft about it. if he were trying to avoid flying into the trees(again) all he had to do was a soft flat turn and he would have made it just fine. as for who has the rig and camera equipment and video now, i have no idea.

i saw shane crash. i was sitting in a chair in front of the hanger next to the concrete pad and i could see his canopy the entire time-but not his body because he was behind the corner of the hanger. before his crash, he was flying north down the east side of the hanger and along the beer line and between 70-100 feet in the air the canopy hooked sharply 180 into the east(the wind was out of the east and very low). at this point in time his body was behind the corner of the hanger but i could see his canopy clearly. when i raised up out of the chair, i saw him hit the ground, bounce up about 3 feet, do a 180(his body) and he came to rest on all 4's facing east. the impact left 4 inch deep divots in the dry ground! an EMT was jumping there(i have never seen this guy before) and he cut shane's rig off and rolled him over on his back, put a neck brace on him and performed basic emergency care. it was clear shane was hurt bad. he was completely out for about 10 minutes and when he did wake up he knew his name but that was about it. he kept telling the people who were giving him emergency care that he wanted to be rolled over on his belly and that he could not breath. then he tried to get up a few times but about 4 people were holding him down. at some point in time someone told him he was hurt real bad and to stay still-it did not help and he was still trying to move and even yelled at people to let him go. it took forever(20 minutes maybe more) for the angleton EMS to get there, but not long after that life flight showed up and took him away. he had his camera rig on and i saw the video and it was not nice-he jumped from the cessna and i am 100% it was a hop-n-pop and no tandams on that load at all. based on what i saw, i cannot help but to believe that he was trying some kind of high performance landing. the person who showed me the video said he had a riser in his hand-it can be seen in the video for a second-but it looked like a toggle to me. at any rate, it was a RADICAL canopy manuver too low to the ground and nothing soft about it. if he were trying to avoid flying into the trees(again) all he had to do was a soft flat turn and he would have made it just fine. as for who has the rig and camera equipment and video now, i have no idea.