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viacoffee
on Jan 16, 2020
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Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
Skydiver here. I'm not familiar with this particular event, but that does seem rather high even for those years. In the USA we average ~1 incident per 250,000 sport skydives. Tandems are around 1 in 500,000.
You can find the USPA incidents here:
https://uspa.org/Find/FAQs/Safety
cromulent
on Jan 16, 2020
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I think they are fatality stats, not injury.
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You can find the USPA incidents here: https://uspa.org/Find/FAQs/Safety