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14. Civilian skydiving

This guy used to jump at the club we went to in Sparta, IL not far from St Louis...

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19801123&id=5vhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9uEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6865,7044905

His wife mentioned in the article saw it happen which musta been horrifying. She worked as a receptionist at the place we jumped at and was a real nice lady. But she married an idiot. Rumor has it he tried to land on top of the Arch and then get inside it through an access panel but a gust of wind started pulling him down the north leg. He frantically kept throwing his reserve chute out as he slid down but he was going too slow to have it deploy.

But he was still going fast enough to kill himself. I only made 5 jumps before I decided that was enough especially since I was getting worse and not better so I stopped and crossed that off my list of stupid things to do. Pretty sure I woulda ended up like him if I had done it long enough. Also did some paragliding running off of steep cliffs and flying PPCs in California years later but those were pretty short-lived also.

Nowadays flying drones is plenty enough exciting for me...LOL. If you crash you're only out a few bucks and don't wind up dead.