Object: Building
Location: BRAZIL, , Curitiba City
COD: Impact after cutaway
Description:
This report comes from a friend in Brazil who first learned to pack from Jeferson. Unfortunately this is the second fatality in Brazil within a month.
Jeferson Bitencourt (Base # 848) jumped a 105 meters B in Curitiba city, Brazil. it was his 7th jump in this object.
He jumped alone, a non jumper witness said he had a 180, cleared the building and crashed in a tall tree.
Maybe he was just afraid of getting caught or maybe he was hurt on the tree; We don't know the reasons, but he cutaway his canopy, and fell 40 feet. He had multiple injures on his back and head. Jeferson stayed in coma at the hospital for a week and passed away on October 20th.
He started jumping in 2001, lived in Moab for 6 months, had 240 jumps and was considered to be well experienced by the Brazilian crew.