Legally Bland
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2015
- Messages
- 8,779
- Reaction score
- 43,267
Today's Mail article looks like it's been updated.
Lots more at link.
Winchester Crown Court heard Mr Bayada was called by a colleague to come to the 'drop zone control room,' where a member of staff can overlook jumpers coming in to land at Netheravon.He said: 'I was told very little. The drop zone control was Justin Everitt and he indicated there had been a malfunction but his voice was gone, almost to the point of a bit of panic in his voice.
'He was not able to talk in full and tell me what happened, which is very unusual for him. I have known him a long time and never had that before.
'I knew straight away it was something out of the ordinary. He said something like 'there has been a malfunction, it is serious. Someone has been killed.''
The court heard Mr Bayada rushed out to where the parachutist had fallen with another colleague, who got to 40 year old Mrs Cilliers first and yelled 'she's not dead'.
Mr Bayada then drove back to the base to find doctors and medically-trained club members.
He added: 'She was still in situ. She was lying still when we went back to the scene. With the doctors there were enough people doing first aid that I did not feel I needed to get stuck in.
'Vicky was lying on her back and the reserve (parachute) was on the left hand side.'
The reserve parachute was only moved to shield Mrs Cilliers from debris as the air ambulance landed nearby.
Mr Bayaba said: 'While she was being treated I noticed the suspension lines on the reserve were in a tight ball.
'I noticed the reserve lines were knotted and bundled up in a fairly tight knot. The first time I saw that I knew it was strange as I had never seen that before.
'I was trying to work out what might have gone wrong because reserve parachutes just do not malfunction.
'It alarmed me when I saw the lines knotted that way.
'As Vicky was moved onto the stretcher or the stretcher was moved with Vicky on it, we had a look underneath to see nothing was getting caught and that is the first time I saw the reserve did not have anything attached to it.
'Two risers did not have attachments [slinks]. Both slinks on the same side, Vicky's right hand side, were not there.
'The effect of that is a catastrophic failure of the reserve.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-s-wife-brilliant-skydiver.html#ixzz4uePJ5ylN
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Lots more at link.