Rick Stanley
Date: October 13, 1986
Nationality: Canadian
Object Type: Span
Location: New River Gorge Bridge, Feyetteville, West Virginia, USA
COD: Drowning
Clothes / Suit: Normal Clothes
Description:
This is the second New River Gorge Bridge fatality, however, this did not occur during a Bridge Day. Rick is jumping skydiving gear, sail slider up, with a BASE pilot chute. He is low man on a two way and had a slow opening and a 180. After a very short canopy ride he landed in the rapids (the Zipper) directly below the bridge and is drowned.
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