BASE JUMPING

This moved here, by the way.

Kylie was wearing a 'Go Pro' Camera mounted on her helmet.

The clip on the camera had broke before and she was seen gluing it on before the jump.

This would be her 3rd jump of the day, the first 2 being PCA's, and this would be her first handheld.

This is from the exit point co-ordinator Tom, He is not a jumper but is one of the few Menara KL staff really respected by The base jumping organizers. He has seen enough base jumps over the last few years to know what he is really seeing and was the one PCA'ing those that were not comfortable with freefalls.

Tom said he checked her out on top and all looked fine. He asked her twice if she wanted a PCA to ensure she was comfortable with the first hand held she was doing there. She went off not too bad and pitched after half a second. He said as soon as she pitched it looked different than normal. Where he sees a jumpers pitch normally out at maybe 45 degrees, this seemed to be closer to her head and forward. It appeared the bridle did one complete wrap around the camera maybe 2 feet from the pilot chute. He believes she eventually got it free but it was too late.

The slight crosswind that existed, combined with a weak pitch forward, were the contributing factors allowing the bridle to wrap around the Gopro mount.

300ft doent give you much time to address a problem-- Buffy fought, cleared the bridle, but ran out of time impacting as the canopy was in the process of reaching linestrech.

If you find yourself at an exit point with a Bender (from Futurama) toy containing ashes, you're about to make a jump with Buffy.

That's gotta be a sickening feeling, to see one of these "look different than normal".
During the summer season, it looks like people will kick off several per week sometimes.

#4 Jimmy Tyler - 1982 Jan 01
Object: Earth
Location: UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA, Yosemite
COD: Strike
Description:
This is the first Yosemite BASE fatality and the second death of a BASE number holder. The jump is a short delay in gusty mid-day conditions and an off heading opening put Jimmy into the wall. He is an Internal Revenue Service Agent under investigation, right before he died, for various malfeasance's, including drug dealing, misappropriation of funds, and tax fraud. He is the first person to BASE jump from a moving vehicle when he launched from a pick-up truck crossing the Pine Valley Bridge using a round parachute (Piglet) in San Diego, California. This jump can be seen in some of Carl Boenish's early films.

#74 Alexi Kosarev - 2003 Apr 05
Object: Earth
Location: ITALY, , Brento
COD: strike
Description:
Alexi experienced an off heading opening and a wall strike after a 5 to 6 second delay. He is hung up for a short period of time before falling the remaining distance to the talus. An Alpine rescue is immediately launched only to find Alexi dead. There are questions surfacing now concerning the experience and preparation level of this jumper. Locals are saying high winds and the short delay (they recommend at least 8-9 seconds) put Alexi too close to the wall on opening. This is the fifth Brento BASE fatality and concerned local jumpers have placed a plaque at the launch point, not so much to memorialize the dead, but to forewarn the living that Brento is an advanced skills level BASE jump

"Alexi? Ehhhh...didn't know him. But Brento? No poseurs, basically."