WRONG! The earth is damaged so greatly, that we will never recover as a planet. All the damage has been done by china and india polluting for 30 years or more. We are finished!
I too retired as a wing suit jumper when my brother rigged my parachute wrong and i hurt my foot. Granted i was 8 years old jumping off our 1 story roof and the parachute was a black trash bag in my backpack. Stupid brother😂😂😂
Risk takers die once; they're the living breed. Many of these commenters die daily, they're the dead unbreedables. "I'm chronically depressed, anxious, single, and my life feels like an abject failure.... Hey look at this loser living! HA He failed! Look at him in Pain! Why am I so resentful and unfuckable?"
Jumping off a cliff with no chute is the least dangerous option; Death is certain. Jumping off a cliff with a chute is the second least dangerous; Dying once is preferable, and having lived life fully is rare, even exceptional. Gluing your ass to a chair for life is the most dangerous endeavor mankind has ever known; Many of us die daily, hourly, perhaps you're even dying a little right now... Who would have thought sitting in a chair could be humanity's deadliest "adventure"? (obesity, sedation, depression, social anxiety, lack of sex drive, addiction, terror, lack of purpose....) and gnawing existential crisis with low levels of dissassociation, delusion, and -insanity intensif- "oh sweet, my Ubereats arrived! and look at this funny cat video..." Tik.. Tok... Tik... Tok
Do u realize that you can live fully without putting your life at danger unecesarily like that? There are tons of things to do that are exciting and safe. But no , some people need adrenaline , I am not sorry for them if they die or left horribly injured , I am sorry for their friends and family who are left shattered and in pain for such morons. But to each it's own I guess , some people never learn from other people mistakes.
@@bamf6603 The notion of exciting may vary from one individual to another. Some people are so empty inside that they have the need to feel danger to feel alive. That's actually sad because often they have families and kids who count on them and that's actually very selfish thing to do. One little mistake and ur gone just like that. Is the pain of your loved ones worth the few seconds of rush ? Tell me honestly.
@@davidebompieri2671 it's an addiction. Is a fentanyl user getting high in the streets "living life"? No... and they're a lot more likely to live longer than a wingsuit user.
Heart breaking to read. It reminds me of the man that tried to kayak from New Zealand to Australia. He waved goodbye to his wife and child and then drowned in a storm a few miles from the finish line. How anyone with a family can take these risks is beyond me. I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but in these cases, it's incredibly selfish to seek the next hit of adrenaline.
So his chute did not open and then he died you say? Thanks for letting us know the outcome of his chute not opening. Sorry, I just couldn't resist being a dick.
Let's see, the whole point of wingsuit flying is to fly as close as possible to solid objects without actually hitting them, right? What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not disputing your point. Via online articles, I've seen estimates of 1 in 500 jumps to 1 in 2,300 jumps result in death for base jumpers. I could only find one article that would put a percentage or ratio of cave scuba dives resulting in death, that was 1 in 3,300 dives. I only accepted estimates from articles, not peoples comments. It's worthy to note, I found an article state not every base jump death gets reported as such. Likewise, I found an article state not all scuba dive deaths get reported as such. However, I was left with the overall impression that a higher percentage of cave scuba dive deaths don't get reported in comparison to base jumper deaths not getting reported.
Wingsuit is safe... the way they fly is not safe. There is so many professional wingsuit jumpers (or how are they called) who are already dead because of some good shots.
Thank God we had courageous test pilots pioneering aviation that made crossing the country in a few hours in a plane, a routine event, like Chuck Yeager, Jimmy Doolittle & Neil Armstrong instead of cowards like you that criticize those brave enough to make human advancements in wingsuits
@@mikeef747 LOL! Not even close to comparable. There's a huge difference between what those pioneer test pilots did & what base jumping wingsuiters do in proximity flights. The test pilots weren't doing what they were doing, just to get a adrenaline rush from intentionally trying to narrowly escape death every jump and flight close to terrain as possible... such as is the intent of suicidal wingsuiters. The pioneers/test pilots actually achieved something useful to the entire human race, called flying. A whole new & highly useful mode of transportation. The wingsuiters achievement... the creation of a useless & extremely dangerous sport, solely used for the enjoyment of those relatively few who use them. A sport that has cost hundreds of lives (400+). A sport enjoyed by less than 99.99& of the human race. What usefulness has improved wingsuits brought to the human race??? No, these base jumping proximity flyers such as in this video are NOT courageous & are NOT doing it for a greater cause... they are just suicidal adreline junkies who do it for the thrill & popularity. All they bring is great sadness to their family & friends after their pointless deaths.
Yeah freedom sucks man. I found the fastest way to shut up an insurance salesman was to tell him I am a skydiver. I live in Canada and once did a road rip to the US to do some skydiving. I checked with the supplemental insurance company to make sure I was covered. They told me I was covered once I left the airpane, but NOT covered for the ride to altitude. Go figure.
Ouch. According to Google search, there have been 400 fatal wingsuit deaths since 1981. The death rate is an astonishing 1 death per 500 flights. Wow, it must be difficult to push that thought back every time one of these folks takes the leap. Totally committed.
That death total doesn't really paint the whole picture though. I looked up all base jump fatalities, which happens to go back to 1981. From then to this date, it's 470 deaths exactly. The list doesn't specify if any of those fatalities include non winged suits/parachutes, but it clear via the menu filter that all winged suit base jump deaths are on the list. Here's where I'm going with this. Of those 470 deaths, 246 of them occurred in this current 10 year span, 2014 to end of this year, which is by far the most deaths over any 10 year period. As well as 340 deaths in this current 15 year span vs 130 deaths over the previous 28 years. There is a 2.05 deaths per month average via base jumps this current 10 year span.
@@_MjG_ Yeah, the figures will be slightly skewed as the sport has become more popular over time, therefore the deaths per flight numbers will increase almost exponentially. What is true though is you have to have a screw lose to do this insanity. I know they will justify it by saying "we take our safety very seriously", but BASE jumping and Proximity Flying is as close to unintentional suicide as you can possibly get......
@@oildalejones567 Who can say? Lol.....some redundant wording there. As non fatal wingsuit accidents go, Jeb Corliss's impact with terrain in South Africa is the worst one I've seen. He mincemeated both of his legs on a rocky outcrop which fortunately fell away steeply enough that he managed to deploy and land and survive..... absolute lunatic. He has been quoted as saying that wingsuit proximity flying will 100% be the cause of his death.... and he seems fine with that!
Obviously, the mistake was switching mid-flight from the perfectly-functional wingsuit to the untrustworthy parachute. Clearly if you'd stuck to the wingsuit all the way down, then you could have avoided the unfortunate parachute incident. ;-)
Looked like the first suicide attempt was flying through the trees, when that didn’t work,land in a vineyard - which are always full of metal poles and wires. Lucky the flyer wasn’t impaled when he landed.
@@danielc3003 Of course. But it wins even if you spend your life on the couch. And it is of course controlled flight. It is hardly an illusion. Your body and suit is the wing, and there are lots of videos on RUclips of guys flying wingsuits through narrow opening in the rock that are barely a foot wider than their wingspan. If this is not controlled flight, then what is? I'm not saying it isn't extremely dangerous. It is. With 900 skydives and a dozen wingsuit flights from aircraft, I am nowhere near where I would need to be to even think of flying a wingsuit off a cliff. Let alone flying right beside it. I wish I was 20 years younger. :) I don't have the mental energy for the challenge at 68 years old.
That dang narcissistic go pro camera got him! He dipped a shoulder during deployment, while trying to keep the other shoulder extending the camera. Caused those line twists.
You do it for the rush; the adrenaline; the bragging rights; the bravado; the admiration of those not brave enough; and the feeling of invincibility. All of those feelings wouldn't exist without THIS...
Invincibility!!!!! Wrong word where there is a 1:500 death rate and 400 deaths so far. If you know anything about Risk Assessment and ALARP, those odds are unacceptable. I'm so old that when I started diving it was dangerous and sex was safe. Now look what's happened.
@@csjrogerson2377 please go back and re-read my original comment. I said “…..the FEELING of invincibility….” When people defy death, they get a charge; a rush; a jolt…for many, it “feels like” (however illogical or irrational) that they are, in that moment, a superhero….invincible. This is a big reason why thrill seekers engage in this activity.
@drcrocodile1 maybe he had to, to reach over his head? I wonder if he initiated the line twist with his body position during deployment when he looks over his shoulder to check his canopy. I wonder how he's doing?
At first I thought it was a left brake fire on opening, however looks like the right steering line has a pressure knot and attached itself to the C line (53 second mark).
I don’t do BASE or wing suit, but as a skydiver it looks to me like he didn’t have the altitude to slow down his forward movement before deploying. That may have induced the line twists. Certainly he didn’t have the altitude to be able to deal with the line twists. If you’re at 3000ft on a normal skydive you can normally just unwind them because you’ve got the time. Failing that, you can cutaway and use the reserve. When you deploy so close to the ground, you can’t do any of this. One of the things that makes BASE so much more dangerous.
Is it really a pure wing suit incident ? My point is that he is twisting when opening the parachute, the same issue could have happened in base-jump, or regular jump am I wrong ? The only difference with a regular parachute jump is probably ground proximity, not allowing him to cut off and use his reserve (do you have a reserve in wing suit?).
As noone more qualified answered your question, I will : as far as I know you have a reserve when jumping from a plane, you don't have one when base jumping, regardless if you are equiped with a wingsuit or not. You are right when assuming that you have time to cut off and use a reserve when jumping from a plane, and not when base jumping. I could also add, (on the control of the community) that getting some twists when jumping from a plane is generally not an issue : you have plenty of time to manage them and put your parachute in the proper configuration without using your reserve. That said, I am not absolutely sure the issue in this video was just regular twists. Other comment let me think it could have been some parachute malfunction or tricky issue coming from the parachute packing. It would be nice if Gabriel Lot explained it to us, but it seems he ignore any comment in english and answer only to the one in spanish, so...
Hey Gabriel Lot, tu ne veux pas nous raconter ce qui s'est passé ? Je te le demanderais bien en Espagnol car j'ai remarqué que tu réponds souvent aux commentaires dans cette langue, mais hélas, je ne la parle pas. Donc, j'essaie le français... 🙂
Hello , i jumped sixty times , with static and freefall , from aeroplane (opening at 1000 meters) and from balloon (opening from 300 meters) , with round canopy and square matras as in this video . I have had line twists which are easily untwisted , when one has the time for it . On the video is to be seen that the jumper opens correctly and that his body position is also corect and straight . However , the square canopy immediately turns its nose to his left , while it should have gone open straight forward . It think this is a "wheather-vaning" effect . Just like a rooster on a churchtop wheaters into the prevailing wind , aeroplanes also do this . This leads to assume that there was a strong wind blowing there from left to right , compared to the position of the jumper . This is logical , because the opening of the matras was made very low and over a hill side . Winds may blow there , it is the mountains . These mountain winds are invisible at first and can complicate and endanger such base-jumps , or wingsuit jumps near hills and mountains , vey much . Because near to the ground there is no room or time to react in case of problems , which is very clearly visible in this video . Maybe base and wingsuit jumpers should use only round parachute canopies . These are much safer in deployment and stability under winds and windshears in the air above ground , than square canopies that are more complicated in terms of opening and are also prone to collaps in unstable turbulant high airlayers . Round canopies do not collapse , ever . The one advantage of squares is that they are steerable , and round ones practically not , so one can better avoid ground obstacles to land safely from them . The second is that one can land softly with a square matras , even in high groundwinds , with a round one one can crash with too much groundwind . Most reserve chutes are also round canopies , due to said advantages , their simplicity and higher reliability . With round canopies you can have a serious smack when landing badly , or wrongly , but you will have a good opening with more reliability , and keep that opening deployed . Regards , Erwin , Belgium .
I went into a Chinese tailors for a suit I said to Mr Wing I want a suit. I don't know if it was the language translation that did it but there I was standing on a rock with a parachute on my back
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam " Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough !" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
The parachute looked too small. He wouldn't have been able to flair all that much even if it didn't twist. I guess the idea was to come in hot on the chute, flair and foot drag to a stop.
Bro, can you imagine jumping off a rock in a squirrel suit? Then pulling a parachute that immediately no safe word chokes the shit out of you in the middle of the sky until you get shit whipped to the ground and all that shits on candid camera.. people are awesome, but people are wild!
He had tension knot on his lines what caused parachute to spin down quickly. Almost impossible to fix in the air. With correctly open parachute if you don't grab the toggles you gonna basically fly straight, not spin.
No. He had "line twists" when the parachute opened. These normally take about 20-30 seconds to clear, OR, you have to release from the main parachute (called a cutaway) and deploy the reserve. He had time for neither. Also, as the canopy deployed, he dipped his right shoulder and kept his left shoulder extended to make sure and keep his selfie going. SMDH. This caused the line twists.
@@5222k In base rigs there is no reserve. You have only 1 canopy. And yes he had line twists, but in addition to tension knot. Otherwise his line twist would fly most likely leveled, without spinning, specially on base canopy, they are build more like skydiving reserve canopies then mains. You can see the tension knot in 0:53. From what you are saying I''m guessing you are a beginner skydiver. That's all fine, but down in the comments you even tried to correct the author of video himself. Too much ego, not enough will to learn something new ;)
@@adelardj7026 🙄 Not a beginner. And I realize base / wing flight do not have a reserve. See my comment stating as much. And the idea that I can’t comment directly to the jumper himself is idol worship. Which I do not participate in. I’ve never burned in under a spiraling canopy and no chance to use reserve. So I don’t think I’m the one who is egotistical or arrogant.
The way the camera spins around him when he opens the chute, then how he puts his hands behind his head as if he's just chilling looks very comical to me 😂
I wish this included a commentary on what happened, why the parachute failed, what did it get tangled with. Im sure experienced people can tell what happened from the video, but i cant. Larry
Nice fly. Unfortunately you had problems opening the parachute. At the end of the video you can hear screams. My question therefore: Did the impact on the ground hurt very much?
I was detailing my truck this morning and noticed all the dead bugs on my windshield. I was so compelled by seeing all the poor little wingsuited critters, l thought to myself…….. I could do better than that. So tomorrow I’m gonna put on my wingsuiit and………….. stay TF home!
Did you start laughing when he started groaning? I did. So I felt guilty. But I didn't stop laughing. Feel obliged to say: dude has cojones, regardless. Sounded like he landed on them, though.
This has never happened to me in all my years of not doing wingsuit jumps!
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You’ve been lucky. Or it is because of god. Or gods. Oh no… wait… just good god-damned sense.
No Earths were hurt in the making of this video.
WRONG! The earth is damaged so greatly, that we will never recover as a planet. All the damage has been done by china and india polluting for 30 years or more. We are finished!
"Who put this planet in my way?!"
😂
This was not a wingsuit accident. It was a wingsuit result.
Now that is a statement we can all live by.
You'd have to heart of stone not to laugh.
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If a recall correctly, you can recover from that amount of damage by eating 7 cheese wheels and 26 apples.
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Yes most games jumping from high up is fatal... I guess game of life is no different.
@ntal5859 guess youre wrong. Because he didnt die
If you have a need for speed, be prepared to bleed.
To be fair, you did choose to jump off a perfectly good rock that has been nice and solid and SAFE for millions of years.
Imagine being that farmer having to deal with damage from random debris crashing into your crops.
@@Mrbfgray ikr, being a farmer must be hard enough.
@@TAEbot Hope stuntman adequately compensated hard working farmer like any real man would.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
So who’s holding the camera?
I used to be a wingsuit jumper too but I decided to retire after spraining my ankle jumping off my bed in my wingsuit.
Wise move.
I too retired as a wing suit jumper when my brother rigged my parachute wrong and i hurt my foot. Granted i was 8 years old jumping off our 1 story roof and the parachute was a black trash bag in my backpack. Stupid brother😂😂😂
Cute.😊
Top bunk or bottom bunk?
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You don't see any old wingsuit guys.
And a progressively smaller number every year of young ones.
Said the same thing to my partner last night when I was introducing her to the death cult known as Wing Suit Jumpers.
You don’t grow old by being stupid!
@@waynenelson4829why would you want to be old?
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese It's lovely young one.
Those risk takers are a dying breed
hardly, always someone else to step up to the plate.
Pun very much intended I believe.
I see what ya did there 😉
Risk takers die once; they're the living breed. Many of these commenters die daily, they're the dead unbreedables.
"I'm chronically depressed, anxious, single, and my life feels like an abject failure.... Hey look at this loser living! HA He failed! Look at him in Pain! Why am I so resentful and unfuckable?"
That's gold Jerry, gold
If the fall won't kill you, the woman who owns that garden will.
Who would have thought that jumping off a cliff could be dangerous?
Jumping off a cliff with no chute is the least dangerous option; Death is certain.
Jumping off a cliff with a chute is the second least dangerous; Dying once is preferable, and having lived life fully is rare, even exceptional.
Gluing your ass to a chair for life is the most dangerous endeavor mankind has ever known; Many of us die daily, hourly, perhaps you're even dying a little right now...
Who would have thought sitting in a chair could be humanity's deadliest "adventure"? (obesity, sedation, depression, social anxiety, lack of sex drive, addiction, terror, lack of purpose....)
and gnawing existential crisis with low levels of dissassociation, delusion, and -insanity intensif- "oh sweet, my Ubereats arrived! and look at this funny cat video..." Tik.. Tok... Tik... Tok
Ye its dangerous, but atleast he was still alive after his landing.
Do u realize that you can live fully without putting your life at danger unecesarily like that? There are tons of things to do that are exciting and safe. But no , some people need adrenaline , I am not sorry for them if they die or left horribly injured , I am sorry for their friends and family who are left shattered and in pain for such morons. But to each it's own I guess , some people never learn from other people mistakes.
@@luc1d356 okay tell me at least one thing that’s as exciting and safe, without feeling the thrill of death
@@bamf6603 The notion of exciting may vary from one individual to another. Some people are so empty inside that they have the need to feel danger to feel alive. That's actually sad because often they have families and kids who count on them and that's actually very selfish thing to do. One little mistake and ur gone just like that. Is the pain of your loved ones worth the few seconds of rush ? Tell me honestly.
Addiction is a heck of a thing . Adrenaline junkie's dancing with death.
you meant to write living life
@@davidebompieri2671that sound he made at the end is a life only HE would want to live bub
@@davidebompieri2671 it's an addiction. Is a fentanyl user getting high in the streets "living life"?
No... and they're a lot more likely to live longer than a wingsuit user.
@@davidebompieri2671I bet _you're_ not doing that.
What’s great is they come with there own body bags how considerate.
I've a Chinese company keeps sending me quotes. Maybe it's a hint.
Yeah but that screaming for the three hours really scares of the tourist down the mountain... lucky we just tell em it the big foot fighting.
Their*
Turns out it was Arnold Schwarzenegger all along😂
Total recall falling down the mountain scene.
Yeah classic Conan moaning scene.
@@Rob.P974also total recall pulling the red orb out of his nose scene 🤣
Eraser
Yaaaaaaaahh
Wingsuit and accident, two words that go very well together.
What about Wingsuit and idiot
My wife's nephew jumped off a mountain somewhere in Europe. His chute, which he packed, did not open. He died. He left a wife and two small children.
Indirectly committed suicide.
Heart breaking to read. It reminds me of the man that tried to kayak from New Zealand to Australia. He waved goodbye to his wife and child and then drowned in a storm a few miles from the finish line.
How anyone with a family can take these risks is beyond me.
I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but in these cases, it's incredibly selfish to seek the next hit of adrenaline.
So his chute did not open and then he died you say? Thanks for letting us know the outcome of his chute not opening. Sorry, I just couldn't resist being a dick.
You mean to tell us that idiot had offspring... Darwin awards are meant to end before propagating.
@@monkeynova2012 The kids will be calling mummies next boyfriend daddy and I am sure she got a nice payout, wasn't that idiot a doctor ?
Darwin hits a line drive triple.
Darwin? Guy didnt die you genius... darwin probably has something special lined up for you
I was waiting for the first idiot to make the overused Darwin comment like it was a first. You suck
@@SqueezeMonger Hence it was a triple, not a homerun. If Darwin is correct you're not likely alive to read this post.
@@SqueezeMonger You go ahead and keep hitting those bloop singles, Squeeze. I'm sure one day you, too, will hit one out of the park.
Nailed it. As did he. First a bush, then a mock hanging and culminating in hard contact with terra firma.
There nothing more of a adrenaline rush than gently sliding in my nest with a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits 🍪🍪
I would just swap the tea for cuppucino.😂
Tea is for homosexuals and people from the UK.
Let's see, the whole point of wingsuit flying is to fly as close as possible to solid objects without actually hitting them, right? What could possibly go wrong?
Thats the point of proximity flying and base jump/wing, not wingsuiting broadly. Most wingsuit jumps are from planes
I’ve had similar, safer & longer lasting experiences with mushrooms!
I can't watch this without thinking of the Wile e coyote. I guess I did learn something from watching cartoons Saturday mornings!
Did you see when he looked at the camera and held up a little sign that said, "Oh shit!"
"WHEEEEEEEEE........ splat."🙈🙊
My brother tried to parachute off a tall slide, with a bed sheet. After impact, he made those same sounds for a while.
Strangled by his own parachute. It turns out, there’s something nearly as bad as being strangled.
"It's not flying, it's falling with sty..... never mind."
Once again, my years of staying home and watching people do stupid things online pays off.
" what the heck? I thought wingsuit flying was perfectly safe". Yeah. It is just as safe as cave scuba diving.
I'm not disputing your point. Via online articles, I've seen estimates of 1 in 500 jumps to 1 in 2,300 jumps result in death for base jumpers. I could only find one article that would put a percentage or ratio of cave scuba dives resulting in death, that was 1 in 3,300 dives. I only accepted estimates from articles, not peoples comments.
It's worthy to note, I found an article state not every base jump death gets reported as such. Likewise, I found an article state not all scuba dive deaths get reported as such. However, I was left with the overall impression that a higher percentage of cave scuba dive deaths don't get reported in comparison to base jumper deaths not getting reported.
Hey, I resemble that remark. 🤿
Wingsuit is safe... the way they fly is not safe.
There is so many professional wingsuit jumpers (or how are they called) who are already dead because of some good shots.
Thank God we had courageous test pilots pioneering aviation that made crossing the country in a few hours in a plane, a routine event, like Chuck Yeager, Jimmy Doolittle & Neil Armstrong instead of cowards like you that criticize those brave enough to make human advancements in wingsuits
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LOL! Not even close to comparable.
There's a huge difference between what those pioneer test pilots did & what base jumping wingsuiters do in proximity flights. The test pilots weren't doing what they were doing, just to get a adrenaline rush from intentionally trying to narrowly escape death every jump and flight close to terrain as possible... such as is the intent of suicidal wingsuiters.
The pioneers/test pilots actually achieved something useful to the entire human race, called flying. A whole new & highly useful mode of transportation. The wingsuiters achievement... the creation of a useless & extremely dangerous sport, solely used for the enjoyment of those relatively few who use them. A sport that has cost hundreds of lives (400+). A sport enjoyed by less than 99.99& of the human race. What usefulness has improved wingsuits brought to the human race???
No, these base jumping proximity flyers such as in this video are NOT courageous & are NOT doing it for a greater cause... they are just suicidal adreline junkies who do it for the thrill & popularity. All they bring is great sadness to their family & friends after their pointless deaths.
I’m infuriated that insurance companies refuse these guys as clients. The nerve.
Yeah freedom sucks man. I found the fastest way to shut up an insurance salesman was to tell him I am a skydiver.
I live in Canada and once did a road rip to the US to do some skydiving. I checked with the supplemental insurance company to make sure I was covered. They told me I was covered once I left the airpane, but NOT covered for the ride to altitude. Go figure.
That could have been a lot worse. I don't know what he actually hurt, but at least he's alive
Looks like gravity is still working well.
Ouch. According to Google search, there have been 400 fatal wingsuit deaths since 1981. The death rate is an astonishing 1 death per 500 flights. Wow, it must be difficult to push that thought back every time one of these folks takes the leap. Totally committed.
That death total doesn't really paint the whole picture though. I looked up all base jump fatalities, which happens to go back to 1981. From then to this date, it's 470 deaths exactly. The list doesn't specify if any of those fatalities include non winged suits/parachutes, but it clear via the menu filter that all winged suit base jump deaths are on the list.
Here's where I'm going with this. Of those 470 deaths, 246 of them occurred in this current 10 year span, 2014 to end of this year, which is by far the most deaths over any 10 year period. As well as 340 deaths in this current 15 year span vs 130 deaths over the previous 28 years. There is a 2.05 deaths per month average via base jumps this current 10 year span.
@@_MjG_ Yeah, the figures will be slightly skewed as the sport has become more popular over time, therefore the deaths per flight numbers will increase almost exponentially.
What is true though is you have to have a screw lose to do this insanity. I know they will justify it by saying "we take our safety very seriously", but BASE jumping and Proximity Flying is as close to unintentional suicide as you can possibly get......
How many non-fatal wingsuit deaths have there been? 😏
@@oildalejones567 Who can say? Lol.....some redundant wording there. As non fatal wingsuit accidents go, Jeb Corliss's impact with terrain in South Africa is the worst one I've seen. He mincemeated both of his legs on a rocky outcrop which fortunately fell away steeply enough that he managed to deploy and land and survive..... absolute lunatic. He has been quoted as saying that wingsuit proximity flying will 100% be the cause of his death.... and he seems fine with that!
@@_MjG_It's insane but I wonder what the stats on free soloing is?Seems a lot more dangerous!
Obviously, the mistake was switching mid-flight from the perfectly-functional wingsuit to the untrustworthy parachute. Clearly if you'd stuck to the wingsuit all the way down, then you could have avoided the unfortunate parachute incident. ;-)
Parachutes! We don't need no stinking parachutes!
Looked like the first suicide attempt was flying through the trees, when that didn’t work,land in a vineyard - which are always full of metal poles and wires. Lucky the flyer wasn’t impaled when he landed.
hahahaha!
You think he chose to land there?!
Fun fact: he now sits when he pees.
Whats wrong with sitting when you pee
Nothing at all - when you have legs to stand upon.
They always insults women bcs they see themselves better than them@@nekemli2622
I hope you weren't too badly hurt, and that you've made a full recovery. xD
The scream in agony sounds as if bones are broken
Evil Knievel lived to the age of 69. These dudes are second tier.
Good Schwarzenegger impression at the end (total recall, surface of Mars).
The illusion of controlled flight eventually ends with death by the reality of gravity. This is a great way to avoid old age!
On a positive note, he did lower my payments into the Social Security fund.
I'm 68 with 900 skydives, a dozen wingsuit flights, and a few BASE jumps. Sorry to disappoint you.
@@headdown1 The house always wins.
@@danielc3003 Of course. But it wins even if you spend your life on the couch.
And it is of course controlled flight. It is hardly an illusion. Your body and suit is the wing, and there are lots of videos on RUclips of guys flying wingsuits through narrow opening in the rock that are barely a foot wider than their wingspan. If this is not controlled flight, then what is?
I'm not saying it isn't extremely dangerous. It is. With 900 skydives and a dozen wingsuit flights from aircraft, I am nowhere near where I would need to be to even think of flying a wingsuit off a cliff. Let alone flying right beside it. I wish I was 20 years younger. :) I don't have the mental energy for the challenge at 68 years old.
And here I thought he was surely going to collide with those trees.
That dang narcissistic go pro camera got him! He dipped a shoulder during deployment, while trying to keep the other shoulder extending the camera. Caused those line twists.
Generation GoPro
Nothing would ever make me want to do that.
Looks really fun. Right up until the ground-hitting part.
That looks too dangerous for me. I'll stick with Russian Roulette, more to my level of risk tolerance.
You do it for the rush; the adrenaline; the bragging rights; the bravado; the admiration of those not brave enough; and the feeling of invincibility. All of those feelings wouldn't exist without THIS...
And you also forgot to mention all the people that think ur stupid if you do this.
You do it because you saw someone else do it, and you're a sheep that follows the herd.
Invincibility!!!!! Wrong word where there is a 1:500 death rate and 400 deaths so far. If you know anything about Risk Assessment and ALARP, those odds are unacceptable. I'm so old that when I started diving it was dangerous and sex was safe. Now look what's happened.
@@csjrogerson2377 please go back and re-read my original comment. I said “…..the FEELING of invincibility….” When people defy death, they get a charge; a rush; a jolt…for many, it “feels like” (however illogical or irrational) that they are, in that moment, a superhero….invincible. This is a big reason why thrill seekers engage in this activity.
this is the price of it. And now he payed it.
Any jump you survive is a good one! Now, my new challenge; gas powered PoGo Stick 😊
I’m down.
Buy the model made by Acme. They're the best.
I actually had one and it always tried to break every bone from the hips down. And my spine. It did work though.
Dude needed to be urgent about clearing that line twist.
Exactly. Instead, he unzipped his suit for the camera.
@drcrocodile1 maybe he had to, to reach over his head? I wonder if he initiated the line twist with his body position during deployment when he looks over his shoulder to check his canopy. I wonder how he's doing?
Now that's what you call a plot twist..
Sounds like he is really enjoying that.
"Yes, father. I shall become a bat."
Willow branch to trunk.
I think the bush will recover nicely.
😂
20 years later... paralyzed... bedridden... but the thrill was worth it
Really gotta suck when you can’t get your arms up to deal with a malfunction. Hopefully you healed and can jump again.
That hurt. I was gonna say he could have caught the twist earlier but he had to get arm slack first. Hope he has recovered fully.
i think that the suit didnt allowed him to stretch his hands, look close and you will see that he unzipped his wings first.
Clearly a center of gravity imbalance due to weight of moustache.
Looks like he landed in some weeds with spiny barbs? Looks like the landing hurt.
Aye, those pesky Thistles hurt the poor man like Hell and ruined a perfectly good sue E cide rehearsal.
At first I thought it was a left brake fire on opening, however looks like the right steering line has a pressure knot and attached itself to the C line (53 second mark).
It would be reasonable that some have little sympathy for someone who does an inherently stupid act.
Dude we need the story here.
@@pepwaverley2185 ROFL 🤣🤣
Every person who has ever flown like this is suicidal, whether they know it or not. Every. Single. One.
More guts … than brains
nope, just lack of brains
Better to look at the ground than the camera
I don’t have this problem wearing my tuxedo.
I don’t do BASE or wing suit, but as a skydiver it looks to me like he didn’t have the altitude to slow down his forward movement before deploying. That may have induced the line twists. Certainly he didn’t have the altitude to be able to deal with the line twists. If you’re at 3000ft on a normal skydive you can normally just unwind them because you’ve got the time. Failing that, you can cutaway and use the reserve. When you deploy so close to the ground, you can’t do any of this. One of the things that makes BASE so much more dangerous.
Are you alright? What injuries did you sustain? Hope you recovered quickly!
I defy gravity with a knee brace...but you do your "wingsuit"😂
Is it really a pure wing suit incident ?
My point is that he is twisting when opening the parachute, the same issue could have happened in base-jump, or regular jump am I wrong ?
The only difference with a regular parachute jump is probably ground proximity, not allowing him to cut off and use his reserve (do you have a reserve in wing suit?).
As noone more qualified answered your question, I will : as far as I know you have a reserve when jumping from a plane, you don't have one when base jumping, regardless if you are equiped with a wingsuit or not. You are right when assuming that you have time to cut off and use a reserve when jumping from a plane, and not when base jumping. I could also add, (on the control of the community) that getting some twists when jumping from a plane is generally not an issue : you have plenty of time to manage them and put your parachute in the proper configuration without using your reserve. That said, I am not absolutely sure the issue in this video was just regular twists. Other comment let me think it could have been some parachute malfunction or tricky issue coming from the parachute packing. It would be nice if Gabriel Lot explained it to us, but it seems he ignore any comment in english and answer only to the one in spanish, so...
Hey Gabriel Lot, tu ne veux pas nous raconter ce qui s'est passé ? Je te le demanderais bien en Espagnol car j'ai remarqué que tu réponds souvent aux commentaires dans cette langue, mais hélas, je ne la parle pas. Donc, j'essaie le français... 🙂
Hello , i jumped sixty times , with static and freefall , from aeroplane (opening at 1000 meters) and from balloon (opening from 300 meters) , with round canopy and square matras as in this video . I have had line twists which are easily untwisted , when one has the time for it . On the video is to be seen that the jumper opens correctly and that his body position is also corect and straight . However , the square canopy immediately turns its nose to his left , while it should have gone open straight forward . It think this is a "wheather-vaning" effect . Just like a rooster on a churchtop wheaters into the prevailing wind , aeroplanes also do this . This leads to assume that there was a strong wind blowing there from left to right , compared to the position of the jumper . This is logical , because the opening of the matras was made very low and over a hill side . Winds may blow there , it is the mountains . These mountain winds are invisible at first and can complicate and endanger such base-jumps , or wingsuit jumps near hills and mountains , vey much . Because near to the ground there is no room or time to react in case of problems , which is very clearly visible in this video . Maybe base and wingsuit jumpers should use only round parachute canopies . These are much safer in deployment and stability under winds and windshears in the air above ground , than square canopies that are more complicated in terms of opening and are also prone to collaps in unstable turbulant high airlayers . Round canopies do not collapse , ever . The one advantage of squares is that they are steerable , and round ones practically not , so one can better avoid ground obstacles to land safely from them . The second is that one can land softly with a square matras , even in high groundwinds , with a round one one can crash with too much groundwind . Most reserve chutes are also round canopies , due to said advantages , their simplicity and higher reliability . With round canopies you can have a serious smack when landing badly , or wrongly , but you will have a good opening with more reliability , and keep that opening deployed . Regards , Erwin , Belgium .
I went into a Chinese tailors for a suit I said to Mr Wing I want a suit. I don't know if it was the language translation that did it but there I was standing on a rock with a parachute on my back
I've never had this happen wing suit jumping. Whell......probably because I've never wing suit jumped.
The crying and wailing at the end...
Hey, what COULD go wrong?
Well, if you are screaming and feeling pain, you know you are alive!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam "
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough !"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
*Stupid is as stupid does - Forrest Gump*
This just in...gravity works!
Here's your Darwin Award.
Welcome to the world of extreme sports!
Man with families who do this crazy stuff are the bottom of the barrel. Who pays your family bills when you die.
The parachute looked too small. He wouldn't have been able to flair all that much even if it didn't twist. I guess the idea was to come in hot on the chute, flair and foot drag to a stop.
Camera distortion. I'm pretty sure he knows what size canopy he needs. BASE canopies are not made to come in fast and hot.
Well done. Who's paying for your healthcare? Let me guess....not you.
The cameraman never dies. Damn him,damn this man!
Oh that poor soil. Play stupid games win stupid prizes, am I wrong ?
mom, can we get wing suit?
We have wingsuit at home.
It's not the fall that hurts, it's that sudden stop on the ground....
Looks so fun! I’ll have to try it out soon!
Life insurance doesn't cover this crap.
Bro, can you imagine jumping off a rock in a squirrel suit? Then pulling a parachute that immediately no safe word chokes the shit out of you in the middle of the sky until you get shit whipped to the ground and all that shits on candid camera.. people are awesome, but people are wild!
”shit-whipped” - gonna be laughing at that for a while!
What went wrong? Was he supposed to grab the parachute controls with his hands, but missed then?
He had tension knot on his lines what caused parachute to spin down quickly. Almost impossible to fix in the air. With correctly open parachute if you don't grab the toggles you gonna basically fly straight, not spin.
@@adelardj7026 thanks!
No. He had "line twists" when the parachute opened. These normally take about 20-30 seconds to clear, OR, you have to release from the main parachute (called a cutaway) and deploy the reserve. He had time for neither.
Also, as the canopy deployed, he dipped his right shoulder and kept his left shoulder extended to make sure and keep his selfie going. SMDH. This caused the line twists.
@@5222k In base rigs there is no reserve. You have only 1 canopy. And yes he had line twists, but in addition to tension knot. Otherwise his line twist would fly most likely leveled, without spinning, specially on base canopy, they are build more like skydiving reserve canopies then mains. You can see the tension knot in 0:53. From what you are saying I''m guessing you are a beginner skydiver. That's all fine, but down in the comments you even tried to correct the author of video himself. Too much ego, not enough will to learn something new ;)
@@adelardj7026
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Not a beginner. And I realize base / wing flight do not have a reserve. See my comment stating as much.
And the idea that I can’t comment directly to the jumper himself is idol worship. Which I do not participate in.
I’ve never burned in under a spiraling canopy and no chance to use reserve. So I don’t think I’m the one who is egotistical or arrogant.
The way the camera spins around him when he opens the chute, then how he puts his hands behind his head as if he's just chilling looks very comical to me 😂
He grabbed his risers, trying to get his lines untwisted
did it work?@@zacharysnell6042
What I don't understand is, how boring does your life have to be for you to need to jump from mountains to be sufficiently entertained?
I would have thought that ending was acceptable for a wingsuit Adventure!
Should have used a stunt double for that one
I wish this included a commentary on what happened, why the parachute failed, what did it get tangled with. Im sure experienced people can tell what happened from the video, but i cant. Larry
Teacher - please describe "accident waiting to happen"
Student - Wingsuit jumping.
Teacher - Well done you deserve an "A"
Overloaded on confidence, understocked on hubris.
Since hubris is an excess of self confidence, that statement makes no sense.
Nice fly. Unfortunately you had problems opening the parachute. At the end of the video you can hear screams. My question therefore: Did the impact on the ground hurt very much?
Nah, just a small scratch on the elbow I reckon.
It’s just a flesh wound. 😂
Excellent question.
No, that is laughter you hear at the end.
I was detailing my truck this morning and noticed all the dead bugs on my windshield.
I was so compelled by seeing all the poor little wingsuited critters, l thought to myself……..
I could do better than that. So tomorrow I’m gonna put on my wingsuiit and…………..
stay TF home!
Life is short, shorter if you’re stupid.
The warm embrace of Mother Earth..
He’s very lucky to be alive.
Only the hardest part of wingsuit jumping is ... earth.
Is it wrong that I laughed my ass off at this video?
Did you start laughing when he started groaning? I did. So I felt guilty. But I didn't stop laughing. Feel obliged to say: dude has cojones, regardless. Sounded like he landed on them, though.
The funniest videos ever are gyrocopter crashes.
Based on his extremely stupid dangerous low flying I am going to take a guess that he got his pet monkey to pack the canopy.