Reginaldo Gomes Da Silva Junior

Date: July 25, 2018
Nationality: Brazilian
Location: ITW, Italy
Object Type: Earth
COD: Impact
Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit with skydiving gear
Gear /Parachute: Aura 3 with Vector Micron skydiving Container
Age: 25
Skydive Experience: Reported to be just 40 skydives
BASE Experience: NONE
WS BASE Experience: NONE
Number of WS BASE Jumps from this exit: NONE
Years in Base: TBD
Time of day: 8:00pm
Causal factors: TBD
Exit Altitude: 100m
Conditions: TBD
Wind on ground: TBD
Wind on exit: TBD
Wind mid flight: TBD

Description:
We are releasing this information now (Name) as this person did not do anything required to base jump and the base jumping community wants to make it clear this person intended to jump without any help or instruction.
This non Base jumper and beginner skydiver had no base training nor was mentored by anyone it was reported this jumper showed up in Lauterbrunnen and was asking jumpers to take him to any exit point (many declined and asked him to leave the area) so he could do his first jump he has then proceeded to Brento and died with no training whatsoever.
Climbers on the wall heard an inflation and immediately noticed the canopy slowly turning back to the wall to impact again and again before coming to rest at bottom.

Base jumpers strictly use base jumping gear using skydiving gear is highly dangerous unless knowing exact deployment measures of your canopy and pilot chute.

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