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From: toad@athena.mit.edu (John P. Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Fatality In Colorado
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.001044.20834@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 00:10:44 GMT
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In article <2734.27FA00E3@ehsnet.fidonet.org> SKYDIVE@f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG (SKYDIVE) writes:
>Reply-to: NICK.DI@p0.f412.n202.z1.fidonet.org (NICK DI GIOVANNI)
>Fido-To: uiucuxc!hpfelg.fc.hp.com!
>
>guys was doing AFF too and that one guy is just as dead. It really 
>makes this the second. The fact the JM's didn't have tickets is spitting 
>hairs.

	So, are you saying that any ol' jumper is qualified to perform AFF
	training, and formal certification for such activity is merely a
	formality?  Come on....

>   It's pretty amazing there's hasn't been more students go in. I've surely 
>seen and heard enough about close ones of the years. I'd really like to 
>know how many AFF jumps are made. Maybe there aren't as many as we think.

	I have no statistics to readily quote, but I think that the above
	statement comes from a person
	who is very out of touch with the outside world.  Anyone
	aggree/disagree?

>C-YA
>Nick
>SKYDIVE - via FidoNet node 1:233/13    (ehsnet.fidonet.org)
	
	John Jackson
	toad@athena.mit.edu