Outdoor Activities. Air Sports. The first reason has to do with frequency. At 19 per year, fatal skydiving accidents are infrequent. That tends to make each one newsworthy, so you are likely to hear about them. On the other hand, there are about 93 fatal car accidents every day in the United States.
If you heard about every car accident, you would go insane, so you only hear about a few of them. That leaves you with the impression that car accidents are infrequent even though they happen constantly. The second reason has to do with familiarity. Most people drive every day and nothing bad happens.
So our personal experience leads us to believe that driving is safe. The most recent data gathered by the United States Parachute Association indicates that in out of the 3. While we would like to see this number at 0, the statistics do show that—continually over time as skydiving equipment, technology, and training programs have improved—the number of skydiving fatalities has steadily declined.
Tandem skydiving statistically has better odds, with one skydiving fatality for every , tandem jumps. Mathematically speaking, this makes the odds of a tandem skydiving death 0. Many imagine that the circumstances surrounding these skydiving deaths deals with malfunctioning equipment, but this is not the case.
The majority of fatalities today involve highly experienced skydivers who have made a choice to push boundaries by flying extremely high-performance wings. These canopy pilots use advanced maneuvers and small parachutes to reach speeds of up to 70 mph across the ground.
These maneuvers and the use of such small parachutes leave a small margin for error and increases the overall risk they take. The majority of the skydiving fatalities that we see today come from canopy pilot error. When it comes to tandem skydiving, it is only as safe as the equipment that is used and the competency of the skydiving instructor.
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