British man dies in failed parachute jump from Pattaya condo

[john donson]

just imagine you are walking there , alone, or friends or family and he splats on one of you...

[bbko]

1 hour ago, kwilco said:

had he done base jumps before?

I read from another source, he jumped off this building several times before, and he had a friend on the ground filming this jump.

 

[renaissanc]

I don't wish to sound cruel, but it was a silly idea. Jumping from a plane run by a parachute jump company is wiser, and they video the jump for you too. 

[NedR69]

Cleansing of the gene pool.

[shotover]

Another news article stated the deceased deployed an emergency blue parachute (shown in a photo on the ground) when the main parachute didn't open, bit it was too late to significantly slow his descent. 

[BE88]

6 minutes ago, bbko said:

I read from another source, he jumped off this building several times before, and he had a friend on the ground filming this jump.

 

 

Jumping from a plane you have more safety and time to deploy your parachute and at most deploy the rescue chute but jumping from an apartment complex is like playing Russian roulette.

 

Luckily it didn't hit anyone on the ground

[NONG CHOK]

A 33 yo in Pattaya, he'd probably been on the nest that much he thought he could fly.

[SAFETY FIRST]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

asked a friend to film his jump from the condominium as online video content.

 

Crickey, must be good money in posting YouTube videos, I read lots of articles of these idiots dying creating content. 

 

Foolish YouTubers. 

 

 

Speaking of foolish YouTubers, how is '(my) your mate Nate' going? 

Is he still alive, last I read a pack of Thai guy's wanted to kill him. 

 

 

Edited January 29 by SAFETY FIRST

[gomangosteen]

8 minutes ago, shotover said:

Another news article stated the deceased deployed an emergency blue parachute (shown in a photo on the ground) when the main parachute didn't open, bit it was too late to significantly slow his descent. 

Base jumpers do not have an 'emergency parachute' for a low level approx 100m jump. No time,his total freefall time would have been under five seconds 

[SAFETY FIRST]

29 minutes ago, john donson said:

just imagine you are walking there , alone, or friends or family and he splats on one of you...

Quite possible, the condo was located in Naklua, those high rises are close together. 

 

Apparently, he hit a tree before hitting the ground, I hope no animals were hurt in making his video. 

 

Edited January 29 by SAFETY FIRST

[radiochaser]

2 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

Why did you need 5?

Are you really that fat?

You're  funny!   Back then, 1978 & 1979 when the jumps were made, I was 6' 3" and about 155-160 pounds.   Since then I have shrunk, expanded, and now I am 6' 2" and 174 pounds.  I was more hansum then too.  My wife lies and tells me I am still hansum.   

5 parachutes for 5 jumps to become jump qualified.    Jumped with two parachutes at a time.   The main chute and the reserve. 

Jumps 1-3 were from a Huey helicopter, jumping from 1500 feet above ground.  You had to work fast to get your reserve out if the main failed to open.   Somewhere in the vicinity of Houston, TX.

4th  jump was from a C-130 Hercules.  I don't know the altitude.  I forget where the drop zone was. 

5th jump was from C-141 Starlifter.  I don't know what altitude the was.   Drop zone was at Ft. Chafee, AR.  

All jumps were with static line.   

Edited January 29 by radiochaser

[uttradit]

5 hours ago, quake said:

Very unfortunate.

R.I.P.

Not at all. The guy did something very stupid.

[parallelman]

Playing games with life...well that's okay if if one is so inclined but doing it an inhabited (built up) area? Air flow conditions are not the same as those as a mountainside.

[ashkale]

As if its not crazy enough in Pattaya..now we have Darwin award aspirants too.

[radiochaser]

1 hour ago, Henryford said:

A person would fall 290 feet in under 4 seconds. Is that enough time for a parachute to deploy AND slow you down.

Not having a lot a lot of experience with that, just 5 jumps from 1500 feet and above.  I would say the parachute would have to deploy immediately after you jump.   Someone posted a video showing a guy jumping from the top of a smoke stack and it looked like someone may have held the drag chute (pulls the parachute out of the pack) pulling the parachute out as he jumped.   Might have only fallen no more than 25 feet before it deployed. 

[doctormann]

1 hour ago, youngster30uk said:

closer to 15 seconds

No, 4 seconds is about right, according to Newton.

[radiochaser]

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

Yeah.....I just can't feel sorry for people who get killed doing profoundly stupid stuff. 

 

Generally, a minimum safe altitude to jump is 2500 feet and most jumpers open their chutes at 2000 feet. This guy jumped from about 300 feet (judging about 10 feet per floor x 29 floors). Unauthorized entry into the building. Trying to get likes on his pathetically external locus of control personality for his online persona. 

 

He's (was) an idiot. I hope he wasn't married with kids. I feel sorry for his parents. 

My first three jumps for qualification with a National Guard Airborne company were from 1500 feet.   Jump qualified jumpers went out at 1200 feet.

[anyone]

I hope the tree survived!

[Thingamabob]

1 hour ago, Chongalulu said:

If he hadn't he shoulda started from a much lower floor and built up his confidence...

Poe's law

Do you mean higher floor, or are you joking ?

Edited January 29 by Thingamabob

[KhunBENQ]

Became prominent for a day. Made it to international tabloids at least UK and Germany. German article didn't mention it was in Pattaya, just Thailand.

I hope he leaves no dependents behind.

[uttradit]

1 hour ago, john donson said:

just imagine you are walking there , alone, or friends or family and he splats on one of you...

Yes and bad genes too.

[uttradit]

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

A person would fall 290 feet in under 4 seconds. Is that enough time for a parachute to deploy AND slow you down.

Parachutes sometimes fail so there is no margin for error. Skydivers have plenty of time.

 

Base jumping is stupid. The world's best have died doing it. They were considered legends in the sport. When the best die that means the sport is dumb.

[Kinok Farang]

38 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

You're  funny!   Back then, 1978 & 1979 when the jumps were made, I was 6' 3" and about 155-160 pounds.   Since then I have shrunk, expanded, and now I am 6' 2" and 174 pounds.  I was more hansum then too.  My wife lies and tells me I am still hansum.   

5 parachutes for 5 jumps to become jump qualified.    Jumped with two parachutes at a time.   The main chute and the reserve. 

Jumps 1-3 were from a Huey helicopter, jumping from 1500 feet above ground.  You had to work fast to get your reserve out if the main failed to open.   Somewhere in the vicinity of Houston, TX.

4th  jump was from a C-130 Hercules.  I don't know the altitude.  I forget where the drop zone was. 

5th jump was from C-141 Starlifter.  I don't know what altitude the was.   Drop zone was at Ft. Chafee, AR.  

All jumps were with static line.   

Only kidding sorry.

You're a braver man than me.

[quake]

There's some nasty people on this thread today.

Hope your proud of your comments. 

 

[jimn]

https://youtu.be/SyYe8LJwFKw?si=aE7dssXL8CrCevH

[radiochaser]

4 minutes ago, Kinok Farang said:

Only kidding sorry.

You're a braver man than me.

Not really, I have acrophobia.   I lied about jumping out of the C141 (I think it was this plane).  I spoke to the jump master and asked to be the last one out of the plane.   When I got to the door, I crossed my arms, closed my eyes and he gave me a foot in the right direction, i.e. kicked out the door!   I opened my eyes after feeling the static line pull and checked to see if my canopy was open.  Except for going out the door and some anxiety about the canopy not opening, drifting down to the ground was kind of nice.   Then there is the anxiety about not doing  the parachute landing fall correctly, which we trained doing from a jump tower a few miles from where I lived, which if you got wrong, you could break a leg or something else.

At the next jump at Ft Chaffee, I was chosen to run the ground Net Control Station (radio commander) because I had prior active duty communications training.   I moved to California before the next jump and transferred to a Basic Combat Training unit that did not jump out of airplanes. 

[thairookie]

Has anyone been able to identify the Condo ?

[nausea]

I did a few normal jumps, and you carry an emergency parachute which you can deploy should the main chute fail for some reason. BASE jumpers have no time to deploy an emergency 'chute, they're totally dependent on their main 'chute. This exponentially increases risk, as the chances of both an emergency and main 'chute failing would be statistically pretty improbable, that of the main 'chute failing, not so much. I guess BASE jumpers are playing a form of Russian Roulette, just one with a lot more empty chambers than a revolver, but a game that is, in essence, the same.

Edited January 29 by nausea
More info.

[soi3eddie]

14 minutes ago, jimn said:

https://youtu.be/SyYe8LJwFKw?si=aE7dssXL8CrCevH

 

That doesn't show the jump itself. I have the full video which clearly shows the jump from start to finish (no gory stuff). The main shute never opens. Only the small shute that he can be seen holding in the video before jump. He then crashes through the trees. Very sad loss of life.

 

[Hamus Yaigh]

7 hours ago, AlexRich said:

These guys are incredibly brave to Base Jump

If you see the video of it brave doesn't come into it. Both cameraman and jumper come across as clowns. If you do the math of this, the building is only about 100m high, so about half the minimum height for a parachute to open on time.

 

Thoughts and prayers to the unfortunate witnesses on the ground who would have been needlessly traumatized by the acts of the reckless.

Edited January 29 by Hamus Yaigh