bfl-392

Jeremiah Manners

BFL#:
392 (10th of the year)

Name: Jeremiah Manners
Date: September 3rd, 2020
Nationality: American
Location: Baring, Washington, USA
Object Type: Earth, East Buttress, Mt Baring
COD: Object strike during flight.
Clothes / Suit: Wingsuit Freak 2
Gear / Parachute: Hayduke Lite, Crux
Age: 23
Skydive Experience: 1200+
BASE Jumps: 250
WS BASE Experience: 150
Years/Seasons in Base: 4 years
Time of day: 10:30am
Casual factors: Jeremiah was fixated on flying through the left notch, asking questions on the hike all the way to the exit and acknowledging that he was unsure if his suit would allow him to clear the terrain he was interested in flying over. This was his first time seeing the mountain in person and jumping the object. Jumpers last Wingsuit BASE jump was in Italy 11/6/19. Between then and the jump on the 3rd of September he had made another 200 Wingsuit skydives.
Exit Altitude: 775’ rock drop, 3600’ to lz.
Conditions: 62° clear sunny skies
Wind on exit: Light wind up the face from sun exposure.
Description:
Details would be that J
eremiah took a left line from East Buttress toward the classic attempting to fly over the notch, impacting while flying too low to clear the notch. Canopy partially coming out after impacting and reaching line stretch several hundred feet down the gully where he came to rest. The individual that was on exit with him had jumped first and after realizing what had happened, not having a emergency locator beacon or cell service, ran 30 minutes down trail to his vehicle so that he can drive about 20 minutes to cell service and make the distress call. The SAR Helicopter came as quickly as possible eventually locating his body with no signs of life, they decided to resume the recovery the following day. A team of 4 Search and Rescue members were lowered down to recover his body and later taken to the medical examiner’s office.


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