BASE jumper dies - BASE jumper, 73, dies after setting parachute on fire, Powers say a 73-year-old BASE jumper who passed on subsequent to jumping from an Idaho extension had set his parachute ablaze as a component of a trick.
A realistic feature of the lethal bounce, presented on YouTube on Monday, shows somebody overwhelmed on fire and tumbling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River, 500 feet beneath.
James E. Hickey had evidently wanted to jettison the flaring parachute and send a second chute in the May 7 trick.
Expert BASE jumper Sean Chuma told Twin Falls daily paper The Times-News that he had heard Hickey effectively performed the trick skydiving.
The introductory report from the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office said just that Hickey's parachute sent past the point of no return.
The feature demonstrates two BASE jumpers moving over the railing of the Perrine Bridge and jumping at about the same time.
Anyway, while one jumper floats securely away underneath a parachute, alternate gets to be inundated in a fireball and falls rapidly out of perspective.
The feature skillet back to the waterway simply after the blazing jumper hits the water. A watercraft arrives seconds after the fact, and the feature closes.
A coroner's report said Hickey, of Claremont, Calif., kicked the bucket of obtuse power injury.
BASE hopping has go under expanded investigation as no less than five individuals have passed on in mischances since January, including two last week at Yosemite National Park.
The acronym "BASE" stands for building, radio wire, compass and earth, the sorts of spots from which jumpers jump. It's unlawful in numerous spots however permitted year-round without a license at the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls.
Several individuals hop from the extension consistently, and wounds are regular.
On March 9, 32-year-old Vancouver, British Columbia, inhabitant Bryan Turner kicked the bucket in the wake of hopping from the scaffold in light of the fact that his parachute didn't open appropriately.
A week after Hickey's demise, Carla Jean Segil of Big Bear, Calif., must be saved after her chute got tangled up in the bolster structure under Perrine Bridge. The 26-year-old dangled for around a half hour before she could be pulled to security.
Senior member Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, were hopping illicitly from a precipice in Yosemite when they both hit the stones and kicked the bucket a week ago. The men were wearing wingsuits, bat-like apparatus that permits them to stay up high more and control their flight way.
A realistic feature of the lethal bounce, presented on YouTube on Monday, shows somebody overwhelmed on fire and tumbling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River, 500 feet beneath.
Expert BASE jumper Sean Chuma told Twin Falls daily paper The Times-News that he had heard Hickey effectively performed the trick skydiving.
The introductory report from the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office said just that Hickey's parachute sent past the point of no return.
The feature demonstrates two BASE jumpers moving over the railing of the Perrine Bridge and jumping at about the same time.
Anyway, while one jumper floats securely away underneath a parachute, alternate gets to be inundated in a fireball and falls rapidly out of perspective.
The feature skillet back to the waterway simply after the blazing jumper hits the water. A watercraft arrives seconds after the fact, and the feature closes.
A coroner's report said Hickey, of Claremont, Calif., kicked the bucket of obtuse power injury.
BASE hopping has go under expanded investigation as no less than five individuals have passed on in mischances since January, including two last week at Yosemite National Park.
The acronym "BASE" stands for building, radio wire, compass and earth, the sorts of spots from which jumpers jump. It's unlawful in numerous spots however permitted year-round without a license at the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls.
Several individuals hop from the extension consistently, and wounds are regular.
On March 9, 32-year-old Vancouver, British Columbia, inhabitant Bryan Turner kicked the bucket in the wake of hopping from the scaffold in light of the fact that his parachute didn't open appropriately.
A week after Hickey's demise, Carla Jean Segil of Big Bear, Calif., must be saved after her chute got tangled up in the bolster structure under Perrine Bridge. The 26-year-old dangled for around a half hour before she could be pulled to security.
Senior member Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, were hopping illicitly from a precipice in Yosemite when they both hit the stones and kicked the bucket a week ago. The men were wearing wingsuits, bat-like apparatus that permits them to stay up high more and control their flight way.
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