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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) A man is dead after his parachute failed to deploy when he jumped off the roof of a condo high-rise building in the University City neighborhood of San Diego Tuesday night. Officers were called to the scene after receiving reports of a jumper from the Palisade condominium at Westfield UTC. When police arrived at the scene, they found a base jumper who had hit the ground after falling from the roof of the building.
Investigators learned that the man's parachute was still inside of his backpack and he was also wearing a helmet. SDPD says the victim's daughter arrived at the scene shortly after the incident, and she had to be held down by officers before being taken to a local hospital.
Authorities say they tried to perform life-saving measures for the man but he could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are not sure if the victim lived in the building or how he got access to the roof. They are also trying to find out how the victim's daughter received word of the incident.
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/parachuter-dies-after-falling-15-stories-from-condo-building-near-westfield-utc
Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)Guess the helmet didn't help all that much.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)I hate to leap to conclusions, but it seems a safe guess that jumping 15 stories from the building is what killed him. The word "after" in headlines like this (and it's pretty common) seems to suggest that there may have been some other cause - as if he made it safely down 15 stories and then something came along and killed him.
"Man Dies After Jumping From 15 Story Building" would make more sense since, presumably, he was alive until he reached the bottom, so it wasn't really the jumping that killed him, but the landing.
But it seems that his death coincided with having jumped the 15 stories, and it happened just as he completed that feat, and not sometime afterwards.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"I can make it down in 3 seconds flat!"
And so he did.
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)Is considered to be 180 ft, any lower is suicidal. A 15 storey building is 140 ft, give or take. A packed parachute is going to need more height as well.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)One might expect someone with relevant qualifications to be called a "parachuter" might know this.
He appears to have owned a parachute, but I think it might be more involved than that.
Sort of like calling anyone who jumps into the water a "swimmer". Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but time will quickly tell.
The problem here appears to be that he failed to become a "parachuter" before reaching the bottom.