Friday Freakout: Nearly Fatal Skydive Collision From (Plant-Based) Meat Missile

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UPDATE
The details submitted with this video were a little inaccurate and the "meat missile" jumper in this video reached out to clarify the details. Here's what they had to say:
"I am an AFF instructor and D license skydiver with 715 jumps.. nearly 600 belly skydives. I was not trying to sit fly to the formation. I hadn’t done a belly jump in about a month and am not used to chasing formations without a jumpsuit. I tried to slow down from a dive and overrated and lost control. I’m definitely embarrassed about it, but it happened. Just wanted to give you my side of the story!"
WHAT HAPPENED
These skydivers launched a linked 3-way belly formation and the fourth jumper was meant to chase the group and break into the formation, with the goal of transitioning the belly round to a (sit) campfire. Unfortunately, the chaser - apparently worried that too much vertical distance had opened up between themselves and the rest of the group - allegedly decided go into a sit-fly to get there faster! As you might expect with an inexperience group, the chaser turned into a plant-based meat missile and just barely missed hitting the group very hard.
The jury is still out on whether plant-based meat missiles are better or worse than regular meat missiles, but one thing is for sure... this one was spicy!
WHY DID IT HAPPEN
Crossing Disciplines
Much like not crossing the streams in Ghostbusters, skydivers - and especially inexperienced jumpers - should typically not cross disciplines in a situation like this one. By going into a vertical orientation (fast fall rate) while the rest of the group was in a horizontal orientation (slower fall rate), the chaser made the speed difference between themselves and the group pretty significant. If a belly group is falling at 120mph, and a freeflyer is falling at 150mph or more, that's still 200lbs of skydiver slamming into someone at 30mph. That's more than enough to leave someone unconscious... or worse.
HOW COULD IT BE PREVENTED
Safety First
We've all been there before. You get out, realize you're much higher than the group, and REALLY want to get down to the group. The urge to pick up speed and get down is going to be there. You don't want to miss out on the jump. You don't want to ruin everyone else's jump because you were part of the dive flow. It sucks, but for your safety, and for the safety of everyone else on the jump, you need to get down there in a safe and controlled manner, then level-slot-and-dock. LEVEL. SLOT. DOCK.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Bad Exit? Inexperience?
The submission for this video stated that the jumper made a conscious decision to go into sit-fly in order to get down to the group. We have a sneaking suspicion that this may have actually just been a bad exit. Only ten seconds into a jump, barely off the hill, it seems unlikely that the jumper would have had time to have gotten stable on their belly, seen the distance between them and the group, and decided to go into a sit. This suspicion is supported by how the jumper doesn't appear in a stable sit at all and is tumbling onto their back as they pass the group. We weren't there so we don't know, but if that was the case, then this jump also demonstrates why, when jumping together, inexperienced jumpers should keep the groups small and, if they're going to jump together, may want to consider a linked exit.
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@TEEMsky Жыл бұрын

*WHAT HAPPENED* These skydivers launched a linked 3-way belly formation and the fourth jumper was meant to chase the group and break into the formation, with the goal of transitioning the belly round to a (sit) campfire. Unfortunately, the chaser - apparently worried that too much vertical distance had opened up between themselves and the rest of the group - allegedly decided go into a sit-fly to get there faster! As you might expect with an inexperience group, the chaser turned into a plant-based meat missile and just barely missed hitting the group very hard. The jury is still out on whether plant-based meat missiles are better or worse than regular meat missiles, but one thing is for sure... this one was spicy! *WHY DID IT HAPPEN* Crossing Disciplines Much like not crossing the streams in Ghostbusters, skydivers - and especially inexperienced jumpers - should typically not cross disciplines in a situation like this one. By going into a vertical orientation (fast fall rate) while the rest of the group was in a horizontal orientation (slower fall rate), the chaser made the speed difference between themselves and the group pretty significant. If a belly group is falling at 120mph, and a freeflyer is falling at 150mph or more, that's still 200lbs of skydiver slamming into someone at 30mph. That's more than enough to leave someone unconscious... or worse. *HOW COULD IT BE PREVENTED* Safety First We've all been there before. You get out, realize you're much higher than the group, and REALLY want to get down to the group. The urge to pick up speed and get down is going to be there. You don't want to miss out on the jump. You don't want to ruin everyone else's jump because you were part of the dive flow. It sucks, but for your safety, and for the safety of everyone else on the jump, you need to get down there in a safe and controlled manner, then level-slot-and-dock. LEVEL. SLOT. DOCK. *ADDITIONAL NOTES* Bad Exit? Inexperience? The submission for this video stated that the jumper made a conscious decision to go into sit-fly in order to get down to the group. We have a sneaking suspicion that this may have actually just been a bad exit. Only ten seconds into a jump, barely off the hill, it seems unlikely that the jumper would have had time to have gotten stable on their belly, seen the distance between them and the group, and decided to go into a sit. This suspicion is supported by how the jumper doesn't appear in a stable sit at all and is tumbling onto their back as they pass the group. We weren't there so we don't know, but if that was the case, then this jump also demonstrates why, when jumping together, inexperienced jumpers should keep the groups small and, if they're going to jump together, may want to consider a linked exit.

@TEEMsky Жыл бұрын

*UPDATE* The details submitted with this video were a little inaccurate and the "meat missile" jumper in this video reached out to clarify the details. Here's what they had to say: "I am an AFF instructor and D license skydiver with 715 jumps.. nearly 600 belly skydives. I was not trying to sit fly to the formation. I hadn’t done a belly jump in about a month and am not used to chasing formations without a jumpsuit. I tried to slow down from a dive and overrated and lost control. I’m definitely embarrassed about it, but it happened. Just wanted to give you my side of the story!"

@jlo7770 10 ай бұрын

715 jumps and that's their body positioning after they almost collided with their group? Looks more like an AFF lvl1 that lost both instructors and was barreling towards the ground in hopes the aad goes off and they're not tangled in it. Someone's been cooking their books to get 715 jumps in and be that terrible

@nwsmoat2674 Жыл бұрын

always the tinted visor

@shorehambeach Жыл бұрын

Holy fuck 😢 that was nearly fatal. That person has no right being in such a jump with such a lack of basic body control and awareness. Stay safe folks.

@ahgflyguy Жыл бұрын

I only have two tandem jumps to my name and a few minutes in a wind tunnel, but I've seen my wind tunnel video, and I think I was more stable than this meat missile ended up being after they decide to belly-fly.

@jptothetree Жыл бұрын

@@ahgflyguy Nice try, but no.

@DuncanJimmy Жыл бұрын

Everyone knows the 4th person is a needless complication in a menage-a-trois.

@redlion6505 Жыл бұрын

The guy with the Rayban's expression is hillarious

@kdup505 Жыл бұрын

🎶It's raining men, hallelujah it's raining men! Amen.🎶

@benbazy9238 Жыл бұрын

That was a chick

@lipreader411 Жыл бұрын

@@benbazy9238 could be a chick with a dick?

@airbornestormer7016 Жыл бұрын

Ahhhh, Z hills. Miss that place....

@swolfdo Жыл бұрын

Wait... what about the guy doing a full on stiff arm face push off that dudes helmet?

@patmartin2730 Жыл бұрын

That’s called fun!!

@BurninatorTheTrogdor Жыл бұрын

He wanted him to look up at the group. As soon as he does this he's stable.

@BurninatorTheTrogdor Жыл бұрын

@NullAndVoid True. I wouldn't care if my coach smacked my head though if I was F'ing up. This has happened to me so I might be the wrong person to ask.

@kevinnathanson6876 Жыл бұрын

Burble? What's a burble?!? Oh.

@ZeroSpawn Жыл бұрын

Sweet Jebus 😳. Get level with group at a distance, then make your way to the group.

@spatrickp2578 Жыл бұрын

I love the “face dock”

@direcaodefensiva6780 Жыл бұрын

Que susto! Abraços do Brasil!

@Turdfergusen382 Жыл бұрын

Meat missile is lovely terminology

@jasonkelley5394 Жыл бұрын

So given there is now someone directly (pretty much) below the 3 way and pulling below them I assume, how does that affect the 3 way'ers pull height now? Do you immediately track away and pull or track and pull at originally intended height?

@shorehambeach Жыл бұрын

It was a 4 way. The 3 higher jumpers should work their way down and rejoin the lower jumper then split off in 1/4 track away and pull. If they can’t make it down to him before tracking off time they should keep an eye on him and track away in separate directions and then pull. They should pull at the intended agreed height - plan the jump and jump the plan. Things go wrong and take unexpected turns when jumping. They were very lucky. Don’t be lucky be safe.

@jasonkelley5394 Жыл бұрын

Thanks👍

@shorehambeach Жыл бұрын

@@TheLoneCamper it’s a 4 way. You’d should do as I mentioned in my initial reply. People make mistakes but altering from the agreed planned dive or allowing emotions to over take during the jump starts a sequence of events. Changing your jump plan mid way would could turn an isolated incident into something more serious. Often - when looking at fatalities in skydiving or base - it’s a series of small events that all linked together. This is an isolated incident but if you add a second part to it now ‘John then moved away from the group before agreed break off ‘that may have caused ‘bob’ to do the same thing but not in the safe manner in which you moved away. ‘Bob’ may have tracked down the jump run and impacted with another jumper who was opening at a higher altitude. So in the video it was an isolated incident as they stuck to the plan. In your scenario it opens another chain of events which led to a fatality. I hope this makes sense. Stay safe. Blue skies.

@toddwitt939 Жыл бұрын

They were in the process of getting down to him which is the right thing to do. Be together at breakoff and track away

@JasonYergin Жыл бұрын

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang

@tittyskillet3413 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that stunt looked like it could go bad in a hot minute.

@DLehrke Жыл бұрын

Way too light hearted analysis for what was so dangerous and negligent

@phutton88 Жыл бұрын

I keep saying those leggings that all the chicks like to wear are the problem. “What am I wearing tomorrow? Oh yea! Leggings! They make my butt look good!”