Skydivers collide, fall to their deaths

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Press-Enterprise

A longtime skydiving instructor was one of two parachutists who fell to their deaths Thursday after their parachutes collided over Perris Valley Airport.

Patrick McGowan had worked with Skydive Perris for almost two decades and oversaw parachuting activities at the airport.

The collision appears to have happened 300 to 400 feet above the ground, said the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in a news release. The parachutes collided, deflating both. Neither reinflated and the men fell.

A rescue crew from the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department was alerted to the incident at 3:36 p.m., said Melody Hendrickson, a Cal Fire spokeswoman, in a news release.

Read more: http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_chutefatal01.23c80b334.html

[Keith Bee]

1. Thinning the Herd

Never understood people who leap to their doom and count on a sheet of vinyl to pull them back from Death's Door.

[Javaman]

2. It's actually Nylon and Silk.

And I have sky dived myself.

Until you try it, you will never know.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. No worries. It's CLEARLY not for you.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. You must be an insurance company's dream client

No risk taking, no adventure...

[Rebubula]

9. I do not understand...

...people that fear everything that may harm them.


Living in fear in just another way of dying before your time.


We all die....however, not everyone LIVES.

[joshcryer]

3. Blue skies.

:(

[Locrian]

4. trippin...

never understood why skydiving is legal and acid is not.....

[theaocp]

5. And people say that gravity is only a "theory" n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. It is

Technically speaking, some time some where a brick will be tossed off a building and it will just float there. Note that I will not be standing under said brick at that time.

Not being able to prove root cause does not mean it does not exist...