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http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm >The big question is always, "How dangerous is skydiving?"
by scythe 15y ago
http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm
>The big question is always, "How dangerous is skydiving?" Each year, about 30 people die in parachuting accidents in the United States, or roughly one person per 100,000 jumps. Look at the US Skydiving Incident Reports to get an idea of the types of problems that lead to fatalities. If you make one jump in a year, your chance of dying is 1 in 100,000.
http://www.uspa.org/safety/incident.htm http://www.uspa.org/safety/incident.htm
- StavrosK 15y agoAh, those odds sound better than driving, thanks.
- redsparrow 15y agoIsn't that only relevant if you skydive instead of driving? :)
- pilom 15y agoThere are significant differences based on type of jump too. Most first timers do tandem jumps with an instructor on your back. Those jumps have a fatality rate around 1 in 140,000 where static line jumps are closer 1 in 50,000. And the injury (not fatality) rate for static line jumps is around 1 in 200.
- firebones 15y agoAt the rates they do jumps, there appears to be about a 1-2% annual chance of a fatality. Would such an event end the business? If so, this would change the expected value and the true cost of a jump.
- matt_s 15y agoAnd "injury" probably runs the gamut from sprained ankle to "oh look, my femur is poking through my pants"