Posted: 17:48, August 1, 2022 | Updated: 19:11, August 1, 2022
Recently released video shows a skydiver’s final moments before he was killed in a crash in southeastern Brazil. Andrius Jamaico, 38, died after falling from the roof of a house in Boituva, Sao Paulo on July 19. Footage obtained by Brazil’s TV Globo showed the Jamaican receiving instructions from a skydiving instructor, Paulo Mirkai, as the businessman prepared to jump from the plane with other paratroopers. Jamaica jumped out of the aircraft with Mirkai holding onto his arm sleeve and leg, and at one point confirmed with the trainer that he knew the location of the detached handle by touching the lever. A still image from a video showing Andrius Jamaico parachuting moments before he appeared to lose control, falling over a house where he was killed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 19. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident, but the police chief said the 38-year-old man was unable to open his parachute properly Andrius Jamaico was only skydiving for the third time when he was killed after crashing into a house on July 19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil Andrius Jamaico fell about 6,500 feet from the sky and hit the zinc roof of a residence The skydiving instructor, who was a camera mounted on top of his helmet, then frees Jamaica, who appeared to be in control before suddenly looking spinning around him. The trainer was able to grab Jamaica by the leg, but lost his grip. The Jamaican, who was skydiving for only the third time, continued to spin as the instructor deployed his parachute with the landing spot fast approaching. It fell about 6,500 feet from the sky and hit the zinc roof of the residence before falling to the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene. “What I can say is that I did everything I could, even to keep the images out of my mind,” Mirkai said. The Boituva Civil Police department is still investigating the accident and believes the Jamaican was unable to deploy the parachute properly to avoid the fatal fall. Skydiving over Boituva has been temporarily suspended. Andrius Jamaico receives instructions before jumping from a plane in Sao Paulo, Brazil Parachute instructor Paulo Mirkai holds Andrius Jamaico moments before he admits he knows where the parachute handle is “From what we saw at the scene, there was no full opening of the equipment, nothing even opened, neither of the two canopies, not the reserve, not the main,” Police Chief Emerson Martins told G1. Marcelo Costa, president of the Boituva Paratroopers Association, said Jamaica could have prevented the fatal accident if it had used the “five-second rule” that calls for a paratrooper to immediately deploy his parachute if he senses a problem while diving. “We believe the student lost stability in free fall and, instead of deploying the parachute, was struggling to try to regain stability,” Costa said. “The automatic deployment device worked, releasing the backup parachute, however, in the deployment process, because the parachutist was spinning, it ended up getting entangled in his body and aborting the deployment process.”
