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Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuiter and software developer. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston died while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States.
Italo-Norwegian BASE jumper, died after crashing into a tree at an elevation of 1,500 m near Chamonix. [106] 26 August 2016 Armin Schmieder 28 Switzerland Italian BASE jumper, died after jumping from Kandersteg, in the Swiss Alps. [107] Schmieder live-streamed his fatal flight on Facebook. [108] 3 October 2016 Ratmir Nigimyanov 30 France
After the last practice run, during the join up, aircraft BuNo 152605 struck BuNo 152602 in its wing root area. One aircraft crashed into Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, the other caught fire and crashed into a housing area of Buckroe Beach, Virginia, killing a mother and her baby on the ground as well as injuring over 40 people on the ground.
In October 2003, Corliss was teamed to jump with his best friend, Australian BASE jumper Dwain Weston, at the inaugural Go Fast Games. Corliss was to fly under the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, while Weston was meant to pass over it. Instead, Weston impacted the bridge at an estimated speed of 120 mph (190 km/h) which caused his death.
A BASE jumper somehow managed to survive a 180-feet fall after a gust of wind pushed him toward a cliff and partially deflated his parachute.
The man fell into a slope “more than 1,000 feet above the valley floor,” deputies said. BASE jumper plunges to his death in ‘rugged and hazardous’ valley, Utah officials say Skip to main ...
A base jumper attempted to jump off a local news station's TV tower in St. Louis, Missouri, but got a little tangled up in the process. The man ended up hanging at least 125 feet in the air off ...
A Robinson R44 traffic helicopter, while filming over Champlain Bridge, crashed in a ditch near Autoroute 10 while trying to make an emergency landing on a nearby heliport. [12] [13] 0 2 2009-08-05 Mont-Laurier, Quebec, Canada CFCF-TV: An Enstrom 28 helicopter crashed and burst into flames while filming the aftermath of a tornado [14] [15] 2 0 ...