Rudolf Ioan Ivan Popescu

Rudolf Ioan Ivan Popescu

Date: November 3, 2018
Nationality: Romanian
Location: ITW, Brento, Italy
Object Type: Earth
Height: TBD
COD: Severe line twists and hard impact
Clothes / Suit: Slick
Gear /Parachute: Gargoyle helium - Ace 285
Age: 40
Skydive Experience: 567
BASE Experience: 151
WS BASE Experience: TBD
Number of WS BASE Jumps from this exit: TBD
Years in Base: 2 years
Time of day: 16:30 (4:30pm)
Causal factors: TBD
Exit Altitude: TBD
Conditions: light north winds
Wind on ground: TBD
Wind on exit: head winds
Wind mid flight: TBD

Description:
Information from one of his friends
Uneventful exit , 5 second track . Stop flare and pull. After that he was seen spinning rapidly and fighting severe line twists. Hard impact on the talus.
His main sport was paragliding.
This was his second trip to Brento. Had jumped from Paragliders, buildings, bridges and cliffs


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