Guy has a seizure while skydiving

[troutman]

Incredibly, some people have survived with compromised chutes:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/06/helencarter1

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/god-caught-her-teenage-girl-survives-3500ft-fall-after-birthday-skydiving-trip-almost-turned-to-tragedy-when-her-parachute-failed-to-open-9093329.html0

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of gravity.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Stupidity would be my guess.

like jumping out of a perfectly fine plane........

[nixon45]

Originally Posted by Sliver

What does that leave?

The conscious decision to not pull his parachute..

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by Sliver

What does that leave?

Terrorists.

[CaptainCrunch]

A blast of wind pummeling the person into the side of a building at 100 miles an hour.

[Nabber]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Stupidity would be my guess.

Probably not the best thing to guess about, a great guy lost his life and he had 200-300 jumps under his belt. I get you're just filling in the only other option with what the OP said.

Personally I believe equipment error was to blame in that case in Innisfail being it was the first time that person was wearing a new wing suit, I saw Nixon pointed out conscious decision to pull his chute.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by nixon45

The conscious decision to not pull his parachute..

Yeah, I've heard of this happening more than once.

[nixon45]

Pay attention to how loose his chest strap is upon exiting the aircraft (0:44) and then again as the instructor pulls his chute (1:35). His harness almost slips right off his shoulder as the chute is deployed and the instructor releases him. Probably loosened even more as he was seizing.

The whole video is scary as hell.. student is extremely lucky for a number of reasons.