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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.
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
San Francisco, California (September 8, 1984) - two base jumpers slam into the Golden Gate Bridge; Mexico City, Mexico (June 30, 1997) - an oil tanker is hit by a train and explodes; 27 August 15, 2008 St Augustine, Florida (March 26, 1985) - a pilot's wheel is stuck, forcing a mechanic to make a daring rescue
It crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge and its cargo container was smashed open. Survivor Celso Pacheco, a Guatemalan migrant, stated that the truck seemed to have lost control under the weight of its human cargo. [6]
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A man involved in a collision on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge fled the scene by jumping into the water, the California Highway Patrol said.
Lockheed U-2R, 68-10332, Article 054 of the 9th SRW crashed into the Sea of Japan off the Korean coast this date while on flight out of Osan Air Base, South Korea, pilot Capt. Marty McGregor killed. This was the first of five U-2 losses (and four pilots) suffered by the newly formed Air Combat Command in its first five years.