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Date: June 21, 2018
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Location: Kjerag Exit 6, Norway
Object Type: Earth
COD: Low pull impacting wall at line stretch
Clothes / Suit: Phoenix Fly Tracking Suit
Gear /Parachute: FLiK 2 and Summit
Age: 46
Skydive Experience: TBD
BASE Experience: 19 jumps
WS BASE Experience: TBD
Number of WS BASE Jumps from this exit: TBD
Years in Base: 1 year
Time of day: 2:30pm
Causal factors: TBD
Exit Altitude: 3245 feet
Conditions: TBD
Wind on ground: TBD
Wind on exit: TBD
Wind mid flight: TBD

Description:
This was Oswaldo’s 20th BASE jump, his 4th jump from exit #6 at Kjerag. His first jump from exit 6 was slick(no tracksuit). His 2nd and 3rd jump were in his tracksuit that he received at the event. He had done some practice jumps in his friend’s tracksuit prior to the event.

He had a normal exit, swept into the tracking position and began to turn to the right, he got almost no forward movement prior to the turn. At 10 seconds, he pitched his pilot chute while facing the wall. He impacted a ledge when he was almost to line stretch. His parachute inflated after his first impact and was slowly rotating. He impacted the wall several more times and came to rest at the top of the talus. It seems from the video that the initial impact was not survivable and was announced dead at the scene.

Oswaldo was doing the work. He had taken the first jump course and an advanced BASE course the previous year. His dream was to jump a wingsuit from Kjerag and was working towards that goal. His previous jumps were good, but did have a tendency to turn once he was up to speed. There is nothing that can simulate subterminal tracking other than subterminal tracking. You can’t skydive your tracksuit enough, but the exit is already in high airspeed and the squishy air of subterminal is a completely different beast. Balloon jumps are always recommended prior to terminal walls, if you have one available to you.

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