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Man dies in Parachute school jump
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by gourley | September 14, 2008 at 12:36 am
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A man has died in a parachute jump in Nottinghamshire.
The 30-year-old was on his third jump at the British Parachute School's centre at Langar, near Bingham, on Saturday afternoon.
It is believed he left the plane at 12,500ft but approached the ground too fast and hit his head on landing.
The Parachutist had apparently jumped more than 200 times beforehand and inspection shows that his parachute was working fine.
The unnamed man was airlifted to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham but later died.
The Langar's Parachute School Centre in Nottinghamshire has been operating since 1977 and its members have made over 21,000 jumps since then with it being the busiest 'dropzone' in the UK.
Famously in June the Archbishop of York jumped strapped to a member of the Red Devils parachute team, to help raise money for the families of injured soldiers in Afgahnistan from the same site.
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at 07:51 on September 14th, 2008
betcha he won't do THAT again
at 08:09 on September 14th, 2008
I live about 8 miles from Langar and in the past have declined offers to take part in parachute jumps there, but know a few people that have, usually to raise money for charity.
I am not brave enough and there is no way I would jump out of a perfectly good plane.
at 21:40 on September 14th, 2008
The man who died was, it seemed, an experienced parachutist: my question is:
"Was he free-falling. That is, jumping from an aircraft and opening his own parachute manually a few seconds later, or:
Did he 'hook-up' his parachute to a fixed cable in the aircraft which (almost) guarantees the automatic opening of the parachute as the parachutist leaves the aircraft.
Or: Was the deceased undergoing "specialist" training? If so, forget a detailed public report of the cause of a regrettable death.
Peter
(Former National Service member Parachute Brigade, UK)