| Many misconceptions surround the
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| | lives of 21 people in 2004, down from 25
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| skydiving accident. Causes, the people
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| | in 2003, 33 in 2002, and 35 in 2001, some
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| who are most likely to experience them,
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| | of which may have did a jump without
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| and the likelihood of being killed while
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| | parachute.
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| skydiving are often wrongly perceived.
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| | A comparison of the statistics regarding
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| A skydiving accident can be caused by a
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| | skydiving fatalities with fatality
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| variety of factors, but some more common
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| | statistics from sports that may be
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| causes include collisions between
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| | considered less risky, such as scuba
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| jumpers, difficulty during landing, and
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| | diving, shows that parachuting actually
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| malfunctioning equipment. Despite the
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| | poses less of a risk than most people
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| prevalent myth that equipment problems
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| | perceive. For example, according to
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| are the biggest culprits for causing
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| | reports, approximately 30 out of 100,000
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| accidents, operator error is actually the
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| | skydiving participants are killed in the
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| root cause the majority of the time.
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| | United States each year. This rate
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| Collisions are often the result of
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| | compares to 47 out of 100,000 for scuba
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| parachute canopies deploying too close
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| | diving, 50 out 100,000 for mountain
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| together. Many landing difficulties are
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| | climbing, and 67 out of 100,000 for hot
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| attributable to skydivers overestimating
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| | air ballooning. So don't let safety fears
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| how much time they have to complete turns
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| | scare you from making that first skydive.
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| and other maneuvers, or landing near
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| | On an interesting note, history includes
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| obstacles. A few landing fatalities
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| | a few cases of people who have survived a
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| involve drowning related to landing in
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| | jump without parachute from very high
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| water. Equipment malfunctions rarely
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| | altitudes. Some notable survivors of
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| involve failure of the parachute or
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| | these jumps were airmen from World War
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| reserve to deploy, as may be a common
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| | II. One fighter pilot was forced to jump
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| belief, but more often involve lines that
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| | from his bomber plane when it came under
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| become entangled.
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| | enemy fire in France. He fell 20,000
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| Another misconception about a skydiving
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| | feet, crashed through a skylight on the
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| accident may be that novices are most
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| | roof of a train station, sustained severe
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| often the victims of accidents, but
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| | injuries, and eventually recovered. Other
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| students are actually rarely involved in
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| | scenarios involved airmen leaving their
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| accidents. More experienced jumpers who
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| | planes for the same reason and falling
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| try maneuvers requiring a high level of
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| | anywhere from 18,000 to 22,000 feet and
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| skill are more likely to experience a
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| | surviving because their fall was broken
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| parachuting accident. Accidents took the
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| | by trees and snow drifts.
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