The Reddit thread is interesting, the chap ‘Chris Judd’ is conveying that the investigation needs to be completed before conclusions can be drawn. I agree.
According to the same thread, it appears that the skydiving outfit in question is to restart operations on Saturday.
This raises some pertinent questions relating to safety, questions that haven’t been addressed.
At this point, let’s not lose sight of the fact that two people have died as a result of this tragedy, made worse by the fact that the partner of the tandem passenger raced to the scene in his car to be confronted by a, no doubt, horrific scene. He and other members of her family, quite understandably, want answers.
I would imagine questions such as:
The Reddit thread alludes to a ‘line over’ the reserve. If that’s the case, why was the ‘line over’?
What’s to stop it happening again, maybe next week?
If it’s not a line over, maybe the Tandem Instructor mishandled the malfunction? Hardly fair blaming him when he can’t defend himself. There may well be video to prove or disprove this.
Unless the video was ‘lost’ as alluded to above.
Maybe it was nefarious activity that made the parachutes malfunction. See Emil Cilliers case, he was jailed for life as a result.
There are many theories, lines of enquiry, call it what you will. Having been involved for more than a few decades, at the sharp end of fixed wing engineering, with investigation experience, I’m sure there will be a full and transparent enquiry, as there would be in any other aviation accident where members of the public were killed.
The investigation is not about apportioning blame, it isn’t a witch hunt. It’s a matter of finding out the facts. A member of the public has put their full trust in this company and the TI, that trust was failed in the most awful way. This is about finding out what went wrong and to put in place a protocol to ensure that families and loved ones never ever have to go through this again.
Two people are dead and no one knows why.
Maybe it’s just me but I am more than a bit concerned that, as of this weekend, it’s business as usual at Dunkeswell.