“Given the complexity of the issues, it was necessary to resort to the services of an expert. However, at the time of the accident, no expert provided expertise to analyze the equipment in Canada,” Boulay wrote. “I find this unacceptable.”
Among the recommendations contained in the coroner’s report, Boulay advised that the CAF should “clearly frame the process of collaboration with the various coroner’s offices in Canada to make available, at the request of a coroner, their services and expertise for the analysis of the components of parachute systems in the event of civilian deaths.”Article content
Hay was an experienced professional skydiving instructor from Thunder Bay who had logged 1,120 jumps, including 267 tandem jumps, at the time of his death. First responders found the two men in a prone position, entangled in their safety harnesses with obvious signs of “the violence of the impact on the ground.”
My money is on gravity, no working parachute , user error. Opening too late as a stunt
Hard to believe that
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