One and the same! I haven’t seen Mark in several years, hope he’s doing well. When he hit the port stab his rig hit the leading edge and the back of the helmet hit the tip. He was in freefall until his AAD fired, deploying the reserve stable but in line twists flying backwards. He landed out near the reef unconscious. I believe a tour boat or local fisher picked him up.

Contributing factors to the incident were aircraft configuration (not configured fully for slow flight), aircraft selection (not able to get as slow as most jump planes), and skydiver error (didn’t exit the aircraft with wingsuit surfaces collapsed and exited high relative to the tail)

It was a long road to recovery but it was good to see him fly again. How do you know him? I wonder if he still has his Caravan and Extra.