bfl-383

Luca Barbieri

BFL#: 383 (1st of the year)

Name: Luca Barbieri
Date: 2nd Jan, 2020
Nationality: Italian
Location: S.Giuliano bridge, Sicily, Italy
Object Type: Span
COD: Entangled feet with Bridle
Clothes / Suit: Slick
Gear / Parachute: Unknown
Age: 25
Skydive Experience: Feb 2014 (6 years) - 1300
BASE Jumps: 800+
WS BASE Experience: Unknown
Years/Seasons in Base: October 2016 (3 seasons)
Time of day: 11:25am
Other factors: Static line too long
Exit Altitude: 50 metres (164 feet)
Conditions: Sunny with no wind
Wind on exit: Nil wind
Description:
Updated 19th April 2021
Luca Barbieri's GoPro video.
The GoPro has been delivered to us by his girlfriend.
She was with Luca but was unable to see the jump because she was driving the car to go to pick up Luca from under the bridge.

His GoPro was mounted on his helmet.
After careful analysis we are able to ascertain that the fatality was cause by a feet wrap in his bridle during a Static line jump

From his video POV we see that the SL setup is correct, just that the static cord loop used to fix the system to the bridge is too long for this kind of spot.
Luca had not stowed the bridle excess that there is between the two break cord loops and all system it turned out too long, with too excess of bridle and static cord free to move around.
He jumped with the PC far off his body, in his right hand, pulled just a bit on the right side during the exit
Immediately after the exit, 2 meters below, his body turned quickly on the left side
We see that the primary break cord is broken and the second one is still attached to the bridge
His right foot unfortunately is already wrapped around the bridle excess between the two break cords
When the second break cord breaks he it's already in free fall and on his back with one pin out but with the bridle entanglement around his body till the impact that happens 3 seconds later.

In our opinion the mistake was to not stow the bridle excess between the two break cords with a rubber band and make too long the static cord. That made the entire system to long and more easy to wrap accidently around something
During the exit he flexed too much his legs on his ass, intercepting the bridle.
His girlfriend told us that before this jump, he had done another jump from a 260 metre antenna (Slider ON) that he climbed during the night. Then he packed slider down and drove in the direction of the bridge.
Maybe he was tired and we feel it also in the bridge video where he looks more stressed then usual.
I have seen many mistakes about SL jumps in 20 Years of career, far more dramatic then Luca's but solved only with a big scare.
Luca was really unlucky because all things that could go wrong went wrong.
Luca was a cool guy, super humble with an incredible talent.
With his wing-suit he was a real Master.
I can ascertain that his skills on Slider up jumps were better than his slider down but for sure he was not unprepared just certainly unlucky.

I know that Luca had more than 1300 Skydiving WS jumps and around 800+ BASE jump, mainly with wing-suit
The weather conditions were good with sun and zero wind.

I hope that this details could help for people to pay more attention at any detail during the SL jumps.

We have reports the deceased was jumping with one onlooker who is not a base jumper, we are waiting to hear back from police reports.

(Video of Bridge in report)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJSRWKmCr0...



https://www.corriere.it/.../caltanissetta-luca-barbieri...


https://www.direttasicilia.it/.../si-lancia-dal.../amp/...






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