Luke Chappell
Date: June 21, 2013 Nationality: Australian
Object Type: Earth
Location: Dirty Devil, Moab, Utah, USA
COD: Impact
Clothes / Suit: Plain Clothes
Description: Luke was hitchhiking from the bridge in Idaho down to Moab, and met up with a fellow jumper to head to the Dirty Devil exit (600 ft) before driving the rest of the way to Moab. They arrived really late and Luke didn't have a lot to eat the day before. Before the jump he announced that he was going for a double gainer. He had a good launch, but under-rotated the double. He was swimming a little, and then pitched on his back after 1.5 rotations, while twisting his torso to face the ground again. His pilot chute and bridle passed by the belly camera and appeared to clear, and his canopy extracted while he was still mostly on his back. The canopy snagged on the camera on either the bridle attachment point, or elsewhere. It failed to inflate and Luke was dead upon arrival of the second jumper 2 minutes later.
Luke had over 300 jumps and was jumping very consistently over the last two years. He had been performing aerials for a few months.
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Object Type: Earth
Location: Dirty Devil, Moab, Utah, USA
COD: Impact
Clothes / Suit: Plain Clothes
Description: Luke was hitchhiking from the bridge in Idaho down to Moab, and met up with a fellow jumper to head to the Dirty Devil exit (600 ft) before driving the rest of the way to Moab. They arrived really late and Luke didn't have a lot to eat the day before. Before the jump he announced that he was going for a double gainer. He had a good launch, but under-rotated the double. He was swimming a little, and then pitched on his back after 1.5 rotations, while twisting his torso to face the ground again. His pilot chute and bridle passed by the belly camera and appeared to clear, and his canopy extracted while he was still mostly on his back. The canopy snagged on the camera on either the bridle attachment point, or elsewhere. It failed to inflate and Luke was dead upon arrival of the second jumper 2 minutes later.
Luke had over 300 jumps and was jumping very consistently over the last two years. He had been performing aerials for a few months.
The List:
BASE Fatality List
*** Please send updates, additions, corrections, or comments to: bfl@baselogic.com, or please contact us.
Media Advisory - This information is proprietary and only for the internal use of the BASE jumping community.
You do not have permission to quote anything presented herein without consent.
In the interest of fairness and accuracy this List will present an inaccurate view when not taken in context. These listed events represent fatalities that have occurred over a period of time spanning 1981 to the present.
This List is not 100% accurate.
These reports change as new information becomes available.
Fatalities are not necessarily in order of their occurrence.
BLiNC Magazine strongly encourages readers to comment on its content. Read the Disclaimer and the policy on Site Naming. Posting a comment releases it in the Public Domain. These comments will be moderated. If you see inappropriate content, please notify the administrator
All rights reserved. No republication of this material, in any form or medium, is permitted without express permission of the author. All images and words are protected by U.S. and International Copyright laws. Copyright 1994-2011
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