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Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen"
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" Police are still not releasing what caused that hard landing."
I'm going to take a guess and say the ground. A damn near 70 year old hit the ground at that speed. Imagine the aftermath. Guts and skin everywhere.
The video shows a reflection in the back window of the SUV showing his chute was open when he came down, but he was moving fast and didn’t appear to be flaring (which further slows descent to a manageable landing speed). He might have become incapacitated in the air, or still impacted hard enough to kill him, but it wasn’t a “no chute full speed” type of situation, it seems
In the reflection it looks like he was turning super low. That's pretty dangerous since your body will swing out horizontal during the turn, and then you can slam into the ground as you swing back.
He shouldn't have been that close to homes in the first place though, I assume they must have really fucked up, and he didn't have a safe spot to land.
It's an airpark. It's like an HOA for pilots where the ammenities are taxiways from your house to the runway. Some will even have the hangar in their back yard where it can go straight onto the runway.
You can get a better idea searching airpark on google images.
that's a negatory on the dirt dart, say again, we did not have a dirt dart. more like an aarpsplat.
Yeah I seen that but how many 70 year olds do you know without paper thin skin. If it rains to hard, they bruise.
Most 70 year olds don't have paper thin skin. 70 is not as old as you think. (90 year olds, on the other hand...)
Source: am nurse. Pull tape off a lotta old people.
There's still a lot of muscle and connective membrane holding your organs inside with or without skin.
Human bodies splatter less than you think, more akin to dropping a sausage on the floor. It bounces, and a piece or two might disconnect, but "guts and skin everywhere" is more a traumatic car accident thing.
Gravity isn't hard, silly rabbit. No one has died from gravity, it's usually the stop that gets them.
Lots of ground everywhere i go and none of it has killed anyone.
The key is distancing yourself from the ground (then meeting up with it very quickly).
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