| Description: After a 5-way on the sunset load with normal opennings at around 3000, there was a canopy collision, probably caused by 1 or more off heading opennings. The deceased was tangled in the lower jumpers canopy. The lower jumper cutaway and landed safely under his reserve. The deceased was spinning faster and faster with both mains tangled above him. He cutaway, but could not get clear of the tangled mains. He deployed his reserve which never completely inflated and tangled with the other canopies. He spiraled into the ground, landing near the treeline in a field. He was an Instructor/Examiner who had trained hundreds of jumpers via static line. He was jumping a Manta, a 288ft^2 F111 main, loaded at about 1.0. |