Sunday, September 18, 2005

Adrian Nicholas

Er det mulig tenkte jeg da jeg sjekket innboksen og så en mail med "Tema: Adrian Nicholas", og det var det:

A friend have left us - Adrian Nicholas. You all knew him and have also skydived with him - I'm in loss of words. My thoughts go to Katarina and their daughter. I feel so empty - again a skydiving friend is lost to our community. You take care out there - stay safe.
Schwede


Åssen i helvete skjedde det, tenkte jeg videre, og logget meg på dropzone.coms "incident"-side:

Fatality: Texel, The Netherlands; Adrian Nicolas
With deep regret and sorrow we announce the death of Adrian Nicolas this saturday 17 september 2005 at around 3:30 pm.

Adrian was a highly experienced British parachutist with many thousands of jumps. During his 8th jump this afternoon he performed an expert landingmanouvre. During this correctly executed manouvre his AAD opened his reserve parachute at aproximatly 300 feet. His body was pulled in a horizontal direction because both parachutes were open. Just before he hit the ground he tried to correct this by release his main canopy. Even so he made such a hard landing that he died on the scene because of his injuries. CPR and emergency responds helicopter personel weren't able to save him. Our compasion goes out to his girlfriend, daughter, family and friends.

Paracentrum Texel


Å fy faen...

2 Comments:

At 10:49 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've just watched Extreme Lives on Adrian Nicholas - what a man and what a gentleman he was. So fearless yet so humble - what a loss for us all!

 
At 4:42 pm, Blogger The Lefante Family said...

I also just saw the extreme lives episode and couldn't believe the end credits stating the tragic accident that befell him. A true English gentleman and the world a slightly more boring place without him.

 

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