A 33-year-old British man who attempted to base jump from a 29-story building died when his parachute failed to open. His gruesome death was recorded in a video that the person accompanying him was recording.
The tragedy occurred over the weekend in the tourist city of Pattaya, Thailand. Nathy Odinsonpassionate about this type of activity, he wanted his extreme jump to be recorded and then uploaded the video to his social networks.
According to the Daily Mail, the man fell into a tree and subsequently crashed to the ground. His half-opened blue parachute was resting next to his body, those first on the scene confirmed.
“I heard the sound of the tree and thought it was a fallen branch hitting the ground. A woman screamed, so I got closer and realized she was a person. It was dead. I saw that he had jumped from the building,” said a security guard at the building, noting that it was not the first time Odinson attempted such a jump.
Although autopsy results are not yet available, the British man, whose body had already been recognized by his father, is believed to have died instantly due to a severe contusion.
Odinson used his nets to show off his skills in skydiving and base jumping (an extreme sport that involves jumping to great heights from stationary objects using a parachute). He also promoted his aerial photography company and the private skydiving experiences he offered.
Odinson was a fan of skydiving and base jumping. Photo: InstagramA sad precedent
Unfortunately, tragedies of this style are more common than you might think. In 2019, a 29-year-old Spanish YouTuber called Ruben Carbonel He died after suffering a similar accident.
Carbonel had a YouTube channel dedicated to extreme sports and apparently wanted to film a night jump in Spain. The newspaper El País reports it.
The deceased and a friend climbed the tower of a private cement factory, about 50 meters above the ground. There the YouTuber jumped into the void, but the parachute did not open and he died instantly.
Rubén Carbonell, the YouTube fan who died after a 50 meter fall.According to initial investigations, the parachute would have been positioned incorrectly and for this reason it would have opened only partially.
Source: Clarin
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