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March 2021 – Video footage has captured the tragic moment when students thronging the fourth floor balcony of a university in Bolivia plummeted to their deaths after the railing gave way.

Seven students were killed and five others injured at the Public University of El Alto, second-largest city in Bolivia. The incident occurred as dozens of students crammed onto the balcony to enter a lecture hall for an assembly on Tuesday.

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_The disturbing video footage, captured by a bystander moment before the students fell, shows them jostling while leaning against the railing which collapsed due to the pressure of the crowd. A number of them then went crashing down to the concrete floor while a few were pulled up by those still on the balcony.

A student in blue jacket was saved by other students as she dangled upside down as her colleagues grab her shoes to rescue her.

The cause of death was identified as “multiple defenestration trauma,” Bolivian police chief Colonel Jhonny Aguilera told reporters.

_An investigation has been ordered into the incident and the woman who was rescued would be questioned to find details.

Those dead and injured are aged between 20 to 27.

“From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilised,” health minister Jayson Auza said.

“Our deepest condolences to the people of El Alto and to the suffering families. We await the prompt clarification of the facts,” Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Twitter.

According to Bolivia's Special Force to Fight Crime, the students who lost their lives were identified as Raúl Cadena, Genio Mamani, Saúl Mamani, Daniel Rodríguez, Anahí Chipana, Loida Sosa and Tania Roque.

The bodies have been handed over to the families without delay for last rights, the police said.

1970 in Brazil, Joelma Building fire

Chilling video captured a British daredevil unknowingly leaping to his death as his parachute failed to open during a base jump from a 29-story building in Thailand.

Nathy Odinson, 33, who posts videos of his stunts on social media, climbed atop the building in the coastal resort of Pattaya on Saturday night, the Daily Mirror reported.

A friend captured him smiling as he checks and adjusts his equipment, including a camera that he realizes is not recording so he takes off his helmet to press a button.

Odinson then checks his chute, says, “Three, two, one, see ya!” — and takes the fateful plunge.

In the shocking video, he can be heard hitting a tree and landing on the ground after the green pilot chute he was holding failed to deploy.

Paramedics pronounced him dead and an investigation into the tragic accident has been launched. Police suggested the parachute merely “malfunctioned,” while Odison's brother blamed “user error.”

Kanet Chansong, 33, a security guard who was nearby during the incident, said: “I heard the sound of the tree and I thought it was a fallen branch hitting the ground.”

“A woman screamed so I walked over and realized it was a person. They were dead. I saw that they had jumped from the building,” Chansong added, according to The Mirror.

He said Odinson had had jumped from the building several times before.

“They were making video content for social media. They had done this before and they knew it was not allowed,” Chansong said.

Police Lt. Kamolporn Nadee said that the parachute “malfunctioned” and was being examined.

“He was in a terrible state when we arrived,” the cop said,

“The friend who recorded the video of him jumping was questioned and the video was examined as evidence. Forensics officers are investigating the case further.”

The British Embassy in Bangkok was notified of the tragedy and was contacting Nathy's family in the UK.

“We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Thailand,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said.

Odinson's brother Ed Harrison, 39, told The Sun that the harrowing video showed how the small pilot chute got caught in his harness.

He said simple “user error” led to the tragedy.

“Looking at that video, any skydiver would immediately tell you what is wrong,” Harrison told the outlet.

“As he is standing, he is holding a white mini parachute called a pilot chute that has a cord going to the main chute, which is the bridle,” he said. “You throw the pilot chute into the relative wind flow and that deploys the main chute in his bag on the back.

“What you can clearly see is that the bridle is routed through his harness so there is no chance it could have opened the main chute,” Harrison told The Sun.

“It was a simple mistake he had made without realizing. He looks hurried which is a bad thing, perhaps worried someone might have stopped the jump,” he said.

“It's a really simple thing and you can see he has tried to rectify the bridle but he hasn't looked and no one else has done a check for him. Base jumping is dangerous because you don't have a second chance,” the brother said.

“The equipment was checked after he died by a professional rigger and it was in good working condition. There was no problem with his kit,” he added.

Harrison said his brother had more than 500 jumps under his belt from all over the world.

“He had jumped in America, Spain, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines and had made friends in all of those places,” he said.

“He was fun-loving and joyful and was great with kids. He was a hero to my three children. They spoke to him frequently as I video-called him every other day. They still can't believe this is real,” Harrison said.

He noted that Odinson had been using the same chute as Rowan Atkinson's character in the 2011 James Bond parody “Johnny English Reborn” – and even still had the word “spying” on it.

Harrison said another skydiver who worked as a consultant on the flick gave his brother the chute about a year ago.

Base jumping derives from the acronym BASE, which stands for four categories of fixed objects from which a person can jump: buildings, antennas, spans and earth.

The sport is significantly more dangerous than skydiving because jumpers have just a few seconds to react in case something goes wrong and typically have no backup.

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dude tried to balcony jump, but really just died !!

(Germany)

CONTEXT::

He was holding his wife hostage and when the police came he went to flee. He chose balcony jumping!!

https://www.tag24.de/dresden/lokales/geiselnehmer-stuerzt-30-meter-in-die-tiefe-anwohner-muessen-alles-mitansehen-2866828

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I hope you enjoy.

Drunk Woman Lets Out A Blood-Curdling Scream As She Accidentally Falls To Her Death From An 8th-Story Window (Orenburg, Russia; 9/28/2021; Partial Details Included In Description)

"In Orenburg, a girl fell out of a window on the 8th floor.

On the night of September 28, a girl fell out from their windows of a high-rise building on May 1 street, 61/3. She fell from the height of the eighth floor. As it became known, the girl died.

The incident was recorded by a video surveillance camera installed at the entrance opposite."

"She was doing it for thrills and slipped out, they were probably having drinks and partying at home in the kitchen or something. People are being loud like that the time in big apartment block, just random screams from the street, especially on Friday nights. Few are brave, stupid, drunk enough or all of the above to do what she did. She screamed "blya" when she slipped, and then screamed at the top of her lungs on her way down when she realized, so she didn't do it on purpose. And the guy shouted "pizda" in disbelief. They were not fighting and noone pushed her. Suicidal people don't scream. Most of the time."

Special thanks to v1r and Purgificator of www.DocumentingReality.com, who initially compiled the info.

R.I.P. to the woman, and may her family and friends find peace.

Man In WIngsuit Brutally Slams Into Bridge At 120 MPH, Dismembering Extremities And Killing Him Instantly (Watch The Full Video, But Crash Is At The 0:35-Second Mark; Colorado, USA; 10/2003; Story Included In Description)

"In October 2003, while performing a proximity demonstration, Australian wingsuiter Dwain Weston was killed attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado.

Weston was wearing a wingsuit, a skydiving suit with fabric extended below the arms to the body and between the legs to catch air allowing for horizontal travel when skydiving.

Weston was to go over the bridge while fellow skydiver Jeb Corliss was to go under it. Miscalculating his distance from the bridge, Weston struck a railing while traveling an estimated 120 mph, killing him instantly and dismembering extremities.

Cleanup from his impact took two full days, and many parts of Weston's body were never recovered."

Special thanks to wtfwhatsthat of www.DocumentingReality.com, who initially compiled the info.

R.I.P. to Mr. Weston, and may his family and friends find peace.

Cameraman of the month right here

Yosemite Nat. Park, CA, USA - Oct 22, 1999

A parachutist plunged to her death off Yosemite's most forbidding peak Friday during a protest of park rules banning such jumps.

Jan Davis, a 60-year-old Santa Barbara resident, was the fourth of five jumpers in the protest, which was organized in response to the June 9 drowning death of a jumper who successfully parachuted off El Capitan, only to drown in the river below while trying to flee rangers.

"The first three were beautiful. And then she jumped. Everybody thought it was OK, and then people said, ‘Open up! Open up!' said Paul Sakuma, an Associated Press photographer.

Davis fell to the base of 3,200-foot El Capitan, and rangers quickly cordoned off the area. Davis' husband, photographer Tom Sanders, who was among the spectators, slumped onto his camera in grief after she fell.

The danger of the extreme sport of jumping off buildings, antennas, spans and cliffs has led the National Park Service to ban such jumps. Nationwide, an estimated 21 people have died jumping that way in the last 20 years (until 1999).

Rangers have arrested anyone caught jumping off El Capitan, seized their equipment and put them in the local jail.

Davis was jumping with borrowed gear because she did not want her own to be confiscated by the park rangers waiting to arrest her on the valley floor, witnesses said.

“If only she had used her own gear. If she had only had her own gear,” Sanders said over and over again, according to friends who tried to console him. Sanders told them that Davis usually pulls a cord on her back; on the borrowed jumpsuit, the cord was on her leg.

Also, since BASE jumpers do not have time to open a second chute from such low altitudes, she had no backup, said Chris Conkright, an employee of Aerial Focus, the Santa Barbara-based aerial cinematography company she and her husband ran.

“This wouldn't have been her first choice on gear,” Conkright said. “This was her first choice on gear that you would surrender to the rangers.”

Park rangers and parachutists have tried to reach an accommodation after rangers who staked out a landing area on an informant's tip tried to capture Frank Gambalie III on June 9. Gambalie tried to flee and drowned in the Merced River.

Friday, Gambalie's mother joined about 150 people, including the five jumpers' families and friends, in what was supposed to be a carefully staged demonstration that such jumps can be made safely.

“They agreed ahead of time to land in a designated area, allow themselves to be arrested, forfeit their equipment. We give them a citation for illegal air delivery and the U.S. magistrate sets the fine, traditionally about $2,000,” said Scott Gediman, a park spokesman.

The earlier jumps, under a beautiful blue sky, were flawless, according to Riccarda Mescola, Gambalie's mother, who was on the phone with the AP when Davis' chute failed to open.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-23-mn-25364-story.html

2.4.1912. Franz Reichelt (aka François Reichelt, aka "The Flying Tailor").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt

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Description/title from source

The following video is intended to be used only to illustrate the attacks on the World Trade Center at a ground level, beyond the images of the towers burning in the skyline. It revolves around the so-called "jumpers" falling to—and meeting their fate in—the ground. The term refers to people who die by trauma sustained due to falling from a large height. This video will be deleted as new footage is added.

All of the source videos are available in both YouTube and the Internet Archive websites.

Sources:

Clip № 1: 498-WTCI-433-I-42A0256 -- DOC-NIST-2020-000684 ("WNYW NIST Dub #1")

Camera: Jack Taliercio

Location: West Street (looking at NW corner of WTC)

Clips № 2 and 3: WABC 9/11 NIST Dub #1 [Clips 29 and 76]

Camera: Marty Glembotsky

Location: West Street (from World Financial Center)

Clip № 4: 42A0334 - G29D20 ("VHS Cassette of FDNY 9/11 Videotape")

Camera: Jules Naudet

Location: 1 World Trade Center (lobby; looking at West St.)

Clip № 5: 42A0276 - G26D153

Camera: Guy Rosbrook

Location: The Millenium Hilton (35F, SW corner Suite)

Clip № 6: Fireline video 8 (taken from "FDNY: The Battle Continues")

Camera: Joe Scurto/Richard Smulczeski/David Spira

Location: West Street (from World Financial Center)

Clip № 7: "World Trade Center 2001" (Licensed by CBS)

Camera: Eddie Remy and Tom Flynn (brief excerpt; not shown)

Location: West Street (from Merrill Lynch offices at 23F of 2 World Financial Center)

Clip № 8: "Paul Berriff FULL 9/11 Footage"

Camera: Paul Berriff

Location: West Street

Clip № 9: Clip from "9/11: The Days After"

Camera: Unknown(?)

Location: West Street

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