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WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)

 
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WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Okay, here is the story... Dude was falling from a cliff using a wingsuit (on purpose). The video I linked below contains footage of the dude who died along with his buddies. I am not sure which one he is. The video description has the name of the dead guy, so I assume he is in the video. The video is the exact canyon that the dude died in.

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espite continuing efforts by rescue personnel, the body of a wingsuit jumper remained trapped in the steep, icy terrain of Paria Canyon, the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.

"Today’s attempts to recover the body of the man who died while wingsuit flying in Paria Canyon were unsuccessful," Erika Wiltenmuth, a spokeswoman for the agency, said late Thursday afternoon. "Our search and rescue coordinator continues to meet with assisting agencies to discuss plans and options for a recovery of the body while maintaining the safety of the recovery crew."

The body of Mathew Kenney, 29, of Santa Cruz, was spotted in the canyon walls about 15 miles into the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area near the Arizona-Utah line, where he had been wingsuiting Tuesday with friends, the Sheriff's Office said.

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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
He was a good guy. All BASE jumpers and wingsuit fliers are very interesting people. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds but all share a desire to push their personal limits and the limits of the human body. Flying is very addicting, and sometimes they push it too far, but that's a choice they can make on their own. If it's worth their life to them, then so be it.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
He was a good guy. All BASE jumpers and wingsuit fliers are very interesting people. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds but all share a desire to push their personal limits and the limits of the human body. Flying is very addicting, and sometimes they push it too far, but that's a choice they can make on their own. If it's worth their life to them, then so be it.
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I get this philosophy.
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Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Coward. Stay on the ground shivering in fear.

Me, at 13500 when the green light comes on, I scream "DOOOOOOOOOR!" and out I go.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Sorry that's not flying.......more like a semi-controlled FALL. (Fail?) These guys are adrenaline junkies. How many have died now????
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Very sad. In mountain biking, we recently had a rider pass away from a crash during a race in colorado. There's never any guarantees.

You can die from proximity flying, you can die mountain biking too. Or you can die from just living too long!

I say: Do big things, your body isn't the end all be all of your existence. If you always hide from risk and danger, you're not going to be experiencing much.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Those wingsuits don't make you fly, they make you fall with style.

I thought toy story covered this. lol.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
I'd rather hang-glide myself but I understand the thrill of it.. people who bash this type of lifestyle scared for their little lives on the ground will never really understand...
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Coward. Stay on the ground shivering in fear.

Me, at 13500 when the green light comes on, I scream "DOOOOOOOOOR!" and out I go.
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LOL @coward. Me? Just intelligent and don't like to tempt fate, thank you!
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Sorry that's not flying.......more like a semi-controlled FALL. (Fail?) These guys are adrenaline junkies. How many have died now????
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I can hear the calls now... FAA registration of all Wingsuits!

FAA inspectors have to present before any base jump. All to keep you safe from yourself.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
thrust and wing create flight.......wing suit...not so much, more like slower fall, still a fall all the same
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
he was using plopper technique.
stay on the couch, its only 18 inches
to the floor.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Okay, here is the story... Dude was falling from a cliff using a wingsuit (on purpose). The video I linked below contains footage of the dude who died along with his buddies. I am not sure which one he is. The video description has the name of the dead guy, so I assume he is in the video. The video is the exact canyon that the dude died in.

News story:
espite continuing efforts by rescue personnel, the body of a wingsuit jumper remained trapped in the steep, icy terrain of Paria Canyon, the Coconino County Sheriff's Office said.

"Today’s attempts to recover the body of the man who died while wingsuit flying in Paria Canyon were unsuccessful," Erika Wiltenmuth, a spokeswoman for the agency, said late Thursday afternoon. "Our search and rescue coordinator continues to meet with assisting agencies to discuss plans and options for a recovery of the body while maintaining the safety of the recovery crew."

The body of Mathew Kenney, 29, of Santa Cruz, was spotted in the canyon walls about 15 miles into the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area near the Arizona-Utah line, where he had been wingsuiting Tuesday with friends, the Sheriff's Office said.

[link to www.azcentral.com]


Video:
[link to vimeo.com (secure)]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64077170

So now more people need to risk their lives to get this moron. Let him rot. His stupidity got him killed. No sense in risking the safety of others for a corpse.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Yet millions do it without incident every day.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Yet millions do it without incident every day.
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When that rare mishap occurs, no one usually walks away.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Yet millions do it without incident every day.
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When that rare mishap occurs, no one usually walks away.
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So what? People die in car crashes every day. Does that mean we weren't meant to drive?
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Thanks for the one star. We still are not meant to fly, sorry.
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Yet millions do it without incident every day.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70862817


When that rare mishap occurs, no one usually walks away.
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So what? People die in car crashes every day. Does that mean we weren't meant to drive?
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The odds of walking away from a car crash is much more likely than a plane crash.
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Sure looks fun though. Too bad he died.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Very sad. In mountain biking, we recently had a rider pass away from a crash during a race in colorado. There's never any guarantees.

You can die from proximity flying, you can die mountain biking too. Or you can die from just living too long!

I say: Do big things, your body isn't the end all be all of your existence. If you always hide from risk and danger, you're not going to be experiencing much.
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That's the truth

You can die stepping off a curb
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
...

Yet millions do it without incident every day.
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When that rare mishap occurs, no one usually walks away.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64077170


So what? People die in car crashes every day. Does that mean we weren't meant to drive?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70862817


The odds of walking away from a car crash is much more likely than a plane crash.
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Again, so what? The numbers speak for themselves. Tens of thousands die in auto crashes every year. A small handful to a couple hundred die in plane crashes. Using your stunning logic, we were obviously not meant to drive.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Hey snowflake check your elbow and knee pads and tighten your helmut, stay in the basement, and let us humans live our lives.

We are tired oh people like you trying to control our lives.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
I'm guessing it's a BAD idea to scratch your nose while aloft...
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Squished!
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
He was a good guy. All BASE jumpers and wingsuit fliers are very interesting people. They come from a wide variety of backgrounds but all share a desire to push their personal limits and the limits of the human body. Flying is very addicting, and sometimes they push it too far, but that's a choice they can make on their own. If it's worth their life to them, then so be it.
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Sounds like you wanted to KNOW him in a biblical sense.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Hi AC170,
Thank you for the post;

The very core of existence (life) is intimately connected and bound with risk and the very essence of a gamble...

This apparently applies to the entire chain-of-being; from amoeba's to invertebrates, thru vertebrates to the Hyper-dimensional chain-of-being; Angels, Arch-Angels; Seraphim; Cherubim; Thrones up to the One GodHead itself (!)

Perhaps we shouldn't say; What came first the chicken or the egg but; "Risk or Being-Existence?"

Some part of me 'Winks' at the late Mr Matthew Kenney and realizes he will NEVER again be 'late' again (!) but way-ahead of the rest of us (?).

Last Edited by Being * gnieB on 01/18/2016 12:06 PM
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Those wingsuits don't make you fly, they make you fall with style.

I thought toy story covered this. lol.
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ALL wingsuit "flyers" eventually die.

ALL.

Wingsuit "flyers" are pure adrenalin junkies.

Adrenalin Junkies that have a death wish.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
They are no different than people like Steve Erwin or Seigfried and Fag, that play with animals that can eat them. If they are lucky they will have a few years of fun before they get squished.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
life is about balance.

most humans are out of balance, some just pay for it with their lives sooner than others.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
I think we are meant to fly. i mean the fact that they can control the wing suits proves that. But sometimes even birds fly into windows if they are distracted, shit happens.
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Re: WE ARE NOT MEANT TO FLY. Wingsuit flyer is dead. Cannot recover body yet. Paria Canyon, AZ. (VIDEO)
Where's the video of him going splat?
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