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Disabled skydiver had done 125 jumps

Fogle was a licensed skydiver with approximately five years of experience and more than 125 jumps, including previous jumps at Lost Prairie.

He was a quadriplegic with limited mobility or function in his arms and legs, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Curry said Fogle’s disability was due to a neck injury he suffered in an automobile accident.

Undersheriff Jordan White said Fogle had a custom-built parachute and also rode a custom-built motorcycle, according to The Associated Press.

“I met him [Fogle] last year when he was at the event,” said Fred Sand, owner of the Skydive Lost Prairie skydiving school. “I know that he could get around really well. He was mobile. I would not recognize that he had problems with his arms because he could use his walking sticks.”

While Sand’s operation did tandem jumps with newcomers to the sport, the Lost Prairie Boogie was managed this year for the first time by Meadow Peak Skydiving.

Meadow Peak owner Wayne Cross had no comment about Fogle or the incident.

Fogle had failed to manually deploy his primary or emergency parachutes after leaving the airplane, Curry said in a news release. “The investigation indicates that the emergency deployment mechanism that would have released Fogle’s emergency parachute as a fail-safe mechanism had not been properly activated prior to the jump.”

The incident was investigated by the Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Parachute Association and Federal Aviation Administration.

According to Curry, the investigation indicated appropriate safety procedures and policies were in place and had been followed before and after the incident.

The nationally recognized Lost Prairie Boogie attracts hundreds of jumpers every summer. A skydiver was killed at last year’s event as well. Garl “Mike” Newby, 57, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died after his main parachute got tangled with another skydiver’s parachute. Newby was able to remove his main chute but did not have time to deploy his reserve chute.

The 2011 skydiving event concluded Monday.

The Kitsap Sun reported Monday that Fogle graduated from North Kitsap High School in 2002 and previously attended Wolfle Elementary and Kingston Middle School, according to Robyn Chastain, North Kitsap School District spokeswoman.

Skydiving – what are the chances that the second parachute will ...

If you are going skydiving for the first time, chances are, you will be doing a tandem jump. You wont have to worry about emergencies – you will have a very experienced instructor behind you, who has thousands of jumps under his belt and who will take care of the situation, should this happen.

On to your question.

If both canopies are open, then it’s a malfunction in itself. “Two-out” can happen for a number of reasons, but pretty much all of them are either preventable with proper gear maintenance or solvable with proper training and planning your emergency procedures (EPs). All of these (along with other malfunctions and EPs) are covered in ground school, should you decide to skydive on your own AFTER completing the needed tandem jumps.

There is a good chance of reserve (second) canopy entanglement with the main one (first canopy) “IF” it is spinning. If it is not, then there are three basic configurations the two canopies can fly: 3. Downplane. – the two canopies are at the sides of the jumper, flying towards the ground at a high rate of speed.

While 1 and 2 are usually stable and landable configurations, the 3rd one is not and is very dangerous. Specific actions are required to resolve this ASAP.

If you have any further questions, you should contact the United States Parachute Association on their website (USPA.org) to locate a reputable skydiving school in your area! DO NOT take anything said on the internet as instructional guidelines!

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