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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSSG E sends us a link to the Army Times<\/a> article about the investigation in the death of paratrooper Sergeant Shaina Schmigel during a jump in May over Fort Bragg;<\/p>\n Sgt. Shaina Schmigel died during a nighttime static line jump May 30, 2014, over Fort Bragg, N.C. According to the investigation, Schmigel\u2019s equipment was misrouted so that, when exiting the plane, she became a \u201ctowed jumper.\u201d While be being towed, the subsequent jumper exited the plane and Schmigel became entangled in his T-11 parachute. Schmigel reportedly died from fatal lacerations to the throat and a broken neck. The entire incident lasted only 3 to 4 seconds, according to the investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The collision has likely knocked SGT Schmigel loose from being a towed jumper and her parachute deployed normally. No one, including the jumper who had collided with her, realized that anything was wrong until she found on the drop zone and she was unresponsive.<\/p>\n The investigator found that the safety had only given a cursory check of her static line, and that the safety hadn’t accomplished his refresher training in a timely manner. Schmigel’s rucksack was too light by four pounds and the investigator claims that the accident probably wouldn’t have happened if she’d been jumping with a T-10.<\/p>\n We reported<\/a> Sgt Smigel’s death last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"