This angle jump escalates quickly during a beginner angle camp. One of the skydivers is zooming around all over the place and she collided with another jumper, who ended up dislocating his elbow and ruptured/tore several muscles.
If you're new to angle flying, it's so important to fly in small groups within your skill level and don't rush things — slow is fast.
While doing a demo jump in El Salvador on National Day, this skydiver's main canopy ripped in half on opening. I'm sure this isn't quite the demo jump he was hoping for, but he still managed to land in the stadium safely.
A wingsuiter has a two-out on opening and lands both canopies in a biplane. The two-out wasn't an AAD fire; it was due to a combination of a sharp eyelet on the reserve and a long reserve closing loop, which caused enough friction to completely cut the reserve loop.
A skydive student's standard static line jump turns into something a bit more 'exciting' once the plane stalls. Wow, scary stuff!
A freefall-qualified military jumper was transitioning to civilian skydiving through the MFF Transition Program. Having prior training on ripcord-equipped gear, the student forgot his new training (throw and let go of the pilot chute) and reverted to his old training instead (hold on to the ripcord through the deployment process). The outcome was a cutaway and reserve deployment while still holding the ripc-, err, pilot chute in his hand.
When it comes to transitioning to new systems and gear, practicing pilot chute pulls on the ground is critical for a successful and safe transition.
With low winds on the plane ride to altitude, this skydiver got himself into a bad situation when the winds picked up by the time he was under canopy. He was "about to pick an out for an off DZ landing, but then realized the only option was straight down" and landed in the river.
When you find yourself downwind of the DZ and coming up short, you're best bet is to find an out much earlier at a higher altitude, and commit to an off DZ landing instead of trying (read: hoping) to make it back to the DZ. If that means landing on the other side of the river and a long walk back, I'd say that's much better than landing in the river. Luckily this was a shallow river with a slow current, but what if it was a deep and fast current river? Food for thought.
Wait for it..... and.... whoa! This is way too close, and remember — things are closer than they appear with a GoPro. Here's what we know about this incident:
The luck jar took a hit after this building strike, but he made a nice recovery and landed safely... in the middle of the street... after flying over the police car.
This is what a bad BASE jump exit looks like. Don't do this.