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12-05-2016, 11:59 AM
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Re: Parachutist Dies After He Hits the Ground During Landing
That 2nd camera person... Such a perfectly framed shot!  |
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12-05-2016, 01:22 PM
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Re: Parachutist Dies After He Hits the Ground During Landing
At the end of the video you can hear the show host requesting "a round of applause" for the parachutist's performance lol
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12-05-2016, 01:46 PM
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Re: Parachutist Dies After He Hits the Ground During Landing
It looked like he was planning on swooping overhead of the spectators but wound up coming in too low.
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12-05-2016, 03:38 PM
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Re: Parachutist Dies After He Hits the Ground During Landing
If you asked him to hit that corrugated structure, he would still be alive, because he could not have done it..
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12-05-2016, 08:13 PM
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Re: Parachutist Dies After He Hits the Ground During Landing
... or maybe, just maybe :) it was a downwind approach gone bad. If this were the reason, the descent would be steeper than the pilot wants in a sudden, difficult-to-control kind of way.  |
