Latest Lodi Parachute Center Accident — Two Dead in Fatal Tandem Jump

Jesus, you guys are as bad as the media. It's sky diving. Accidents happen far more frequently than you think.
 
Avgirl said:
If it is that frequent, how do these places still manage to get insurance coverage?
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Buy paying high premiums. When I bought my first motorcycle, the insurance was more than the bike, because of statistics.

With that said, there was less than 30 deaths last year skydiving. But there was a lot of accidents.
 
trafficinsight said:
*shrug*

What do you expect them to do?

SFO reopened 4 or 5 hours after Asiana. Life, and business, goes on.

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You aren't even comparing the same things. SFO is an airport, Skydive Lodi is a company. They should have stopped operations AT LEAST for the day to investigate. Clearly one was an instructor who worked there and was known by other employees. Would you you jump on the next load after you watched your buddy pancake in with a civilian strapped to him?
 
Inverted said:
You aren't even comparing the same things. SFO is an airport, Skydive Lodi is a company. They should have stopped operations AT LEAST for the day to investigate. Clearly one was an instructor who worked there and was known by other employees. Would you you jump on the next load after you watched your buddy pancake in with a civilian strapped to him?
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I wouldn't. Other people would.

Let people deal with it in their own way.

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Inverted said:
You aren't even comparing the same things. SFO is an airport, Skydive Lodi is a company. They should have stopped operations AT LEAST for the day to investigate. Clearly one was an instructor who worked there and was known by other employees. Would you you jump on the next load after you watched your buddy pancake in with a civilian strapped to him?
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trafficinsight said:
I wouldn't. Other people would.

Let people deal with it in their own way.

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I would carefully assess my fitness for the operation at that point and then decide; it's impossible for me to make that determination sitting here on the couch.
 
Inverted said:
Not really. This place has a much higher annual fatality rate than the average.
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It's also one on the largest centers in the nation. I don't e any statistics, but I'd reason that they are pretty close to in par with accidents to other facilities per operation.
 
mshunter said:
It's also one on the largest centers in the nation. I don't e any statistics, but I'd reason that they are pretty close to in par with accidents to other facilities per operation.
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Have you been there? They are as shady as it gets in the skydive world. Fined multiple times for just not doing mx on their airplanes and many other things.

Eloy is busier and doesn't have 1/4 the issues.
 
Inverted said:
You aren't even comparing the same things. SFO is an airport, Skydive Lodi is a company. They should have stopped operations AT LEAST for the day to investigate. Clearly one was an instructor who worked there and was known by other employees. Would you you jump on the next load after you watched your buddy pancake in with a civilian strapped to him?
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Did other skydivers go up and jump that day after the event?

If so, then clearly staying open wasn't the wrong idea.


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CFI A&P said:
Did other skydivers go up and jump that day after the event?

If so, then clearly staying open wasn't the wrong idea.
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If a second incident had occurred afterward, and both were attributable to, say, mis-packed chutes or other shared problem, we wouldn't be thinking so. And I doubt they knew the cause when the decision to continue jumping was made.
 
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