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  1. 03-26-2009, 03:02 PM #1
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    Shane McConkey

    Uncomfirmed that his chute didn't open today? Anybody?
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  2. 03-26-2009, 03:04 PM #2
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    say no to base jumping, its bad
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    Oh no. I hope that's not the case. +++vibes+++
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    Heard this too...really hope this isn't true.
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    Please be bullshit
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    I'm afraid it's true.
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  7. 03-26-2009, 03:12 PM #7
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    Fuck that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by stompinlines View Post
    I'm afraid it's true.
    Source? Just spill it - is he alive?
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  9. 03-26-2009, 03:13 PM #9
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    No fucking way.

    If that's true... fuck.
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    If this is true, that is seriously tragic and terrible. If it's not, worst rumor ever...
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    Shitty, really shitty if this is true.
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  12. 03-26-2009, 03:17 PM #12
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    HOLY SHIT. Please, anybody with a credible source confirm this? I live in Twin Falls, where it is about the only legal place to jump in the nation. Shane is out here A LOT in the summer......and this would -horrible- news.

    Please, someone say it is a rumor.
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    Someone please confirm or deny this with an actual source.
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    I'm calling bullshit until I hear something more credible
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    Please see thread labelled: FUCK
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  17. 03-26-2009, 03:23 PM #17
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    Still can't confirm. Something's gotta pop up somewhere soon.
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  18. 03-26-2009, 03:43 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by huckasoreass View Post
    Please see thread labelled: FUCK

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    From this Base Jumping site

    Incident with the Red Bull Team today in Italy

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    I just heard, 2nd hand from reliable source.

    Shane McConkey was involved in a Ski-BASE-Jump incident in the Italian Dolomite's today.

    All I know, is that on the jump, one ski released, and one did not release. This put Shane into a spin that got out of control. The witness thinks there was a reserve chute toward the end of the jump, but not completely sure.

    Hopefully will have more details later, but the truth is, this is a VERY, VERY Sad day!

    Hell, I remember going on some of Shane very first base jumps EVER off old Greeny.
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  20. 03-26-2009, 04:12 PM #20
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    This is absolutely horrible.
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  21. 03-26-2009, 04:36 PM #21
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    Here's the story: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726

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    From: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726

    Decorated big mountain skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey was killed earlier today in a ski-BASE accident in the Italian Dolomites.

    A member of the Red Bull Air Force and pioneer of the ski-BASE-ing phenomena, McConkey experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute canopy and then soaring down to the ground—as he had done successfully some 700 plus times before.

    "He did a double backflip off the jump and he has these releasable bindings so they come off in the air and then he flies off in his wing suit," filmmaker Scott Gaffney, a longtime close friend of McConkey's, told ESPN Action Sports in an interview this afternoon via phone.

    "But one ski did not come off. And when that happens the drag on the skis causes you to flip over, so the skis' over your head. So he was struggling with the one ski. Then he also got into a bad spin..."

    Such a sad, sad day...
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  23. 03-26-2009, 05:32 PM #23
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