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10ebbor10 t1_ir07uc3 wrote
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Unlikely enough that it occurring has been sufficient to convict someone of murder.
NicknameInCollege t1_ir1ywwo wrote
There was a death at this very same dropzone in 2017 that was initially thought to be accidental until his wife shared that he left her a message insinuating a suicide.
This was my primary dropzone and I knew the man who died. He used to help pickup jumpers in the field and drive the truck back in. I was very shocked by the suicide, as he was always pretty chipper when I saw him.
A very renound skydiver, Carl Daugherty, also died here after a midair collision that caused a hard landing. He was my instructor and last I knew of he had over 17,000 recorded jumps. If there was one man who knew how to regain control of a parachute, it was Carl, but alas the final one proved to be impossible to overcome.
This DZ has a history of notable deaths, and when you're there people will tell you that if you die you're an asshole because you'll ruin jumps for everyone else.
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