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WalterBright 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the j...

> Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.

I'm not so sure about that. I knew the statistics, and I paid full attention in the pre-jump class. A colleague of mine who went with us did not pay attention and shattered one leg from the ankle to the hip. Fortunately, he made a full recovery.

I don't know why any intelligent person would regard jumping out of an airplane as "safe".

NCFZ 7 months ago [–]

Which statistics are you talking about? According to the article, the only statistics available are from self reported data.

WalterBright 7 months ago | [–]

When I went jumping back in the 80s, I was told that the accident rate was around 1 in 1000.

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