Negligent KL Tower BASE Organiser Aziz Ahmad Sabotages His Own Safety
By Gary Cunningham (Oct 2019, updated Jan 2021)
Despite novice Malaysian BASE jumper Aziz Ahmad being of immense help in organising Malaysian BASE jumping events over many years, he has been notorious for misguiding event managers, undermining event standards, and sabotaging event safety. A large portion of my efforts in organising BASE jumping events in Malaysia for over a decade was trying to contain Aziz’s growing level of negligence to try to stop him from getting more people seriously injured or killed.
It was not until 2017 that I was finally able to neutralise Aziz’s negligence, which allowed me to set the event up in the required manner to successfully eliminate tower strikes from the event for the first time ever, along with eliminating or greatly reducing the occurrence of many other types of common incidents. It was a significant achievement to finally put a stop to many horrific injuries that should have never happened at the event. This should have been the first of many improvements to step up event safety to at least the minimum expected level, but new KL Tower management, who seemed to be greatly misguided by Aziz, had other ideas. In the following years, they showed great determination to bring back the high level of negligence to the event, along with horrific incidents.
When relatively new KL Tower CEO Datuk Rozlan Mohamed and KL Tower Events Manager Mohd Dzulfiqhary Ibrahim propelled Aziz Ahmad into the position of BASE Jumping Organiser for their annual BASE jumping event in 2019, they were effectively demanding for serious accidents and death to occur. Putting Aziz in a position that is well beyond his level of knowledge, experience and skill, and in which he had always demonstrated a high level of irresponsibility in the past, was equivalent to signing another death warrant for BASE jumpers. I have watched the same situation unfold in a deadly manner before, with all managers remaining in strong denial that there were any issues. A qualified BASE jumping organiser would have at least 10 times the experience that the Malaysian BASE jumpers have, with a vast experience and understanding of all the common incidents at KL Tower. A qualified BASE jumping organiser also requires a much higher level of integrity than what Aziz has demonstrated.
The situation was a repeat of very ignorant decision making from previous KL Tower managers from 2008 to 2010. The previous management ignored the strong warnings I had given them and insisted on organising their BASE jumping events in a similar naive and reckless manner that guaranteed death and other serious injuries would soon happen. As expected, it quickly resulted in the death of a novice BASE jumper at their BASE jumping event at Alor Setar Tower in 2010. Then a week later at KL Tower, after Aziz was put in charge of the poorly organised event, and he continued to ignore strong warnings, there were a few more near-death experiences.
Previous KL Tower managers were shocked enough by the death to learn the error of their ways, and they made every effort to try to put BASE jumping events back on a responsible path. However, despite Aziz Ahmad being visibly shaken by the death for a few days, he never did learn from it. He appeared to initially fully understand the level of negligence, as straight after the fatality he showed the new 2010 KL Tower CEO my prior warnings which detailed the expected outcome. But a week later, Aziz attempted to continue to operate in the same negligent manner. His level of negligence slowly worsened in future years, always remaining a major safety liability for the event.
Based on how long it took for a fatality to happen last time, another death in Malaysian BASE jumping is expected within 2 years of Aziz Ahmad or any other novice Malaysian BASE jumper taking over BASE jumping events in Malaysia. None of the Malaysian BASE jumpers has had any comprehensive BASE jumping training. They are all essentially what we call “Luck jumpers”. They rely purely on luck for the inevitable issues not to occur, as they do not have the knowledge or skills to avoid the potential issues, or to deal with the inevitable issues when they happen. Luck can sometimes last for a little while, but it usually does not last long in BASE jumping.
Update: January 2021
As expected, there was very sadly a BASE jumping fatality in Malaysia within 2 years of Aziz Ahmad taking over BASE jumping events. It happened on 1st January 2021 at an event organised by Aziz at the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KPWKM) building in Putrajaya.
There was no magic in making such an accurate prediction that a fatality would happen within this precise timeframe. Doing the same wrong things has consistently continued to have the same horrific results within the same timeframes over the last 20 years at BASE jumping events in Malaysia. Novice Malaysian BASE jumping organisers have a proven track record of mismanaging BASE jumping events to the point where death is guaranteed within a relatively short timeframe if it is allowed to continue.
A future article will be published about why a BASE jumping death was guaranteed to happen at the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry (KPWKM) building in Putrajaya within about 500 jumps being done off it.
As expected, with Aziz Ahmad and other novice Malaysian BASE jumpers put in charge of the 2019 KL Tower BASE jumping event, there was a return of horrific injuries, including people with multiple broken bones. Aziz led the incidents. He became a victim of his efforts to decay the standards and safety of the event, almost getting himself and another beginner BASE jumper killed getting caught up in a shocking canopy collision due to his carelessness.
What Happened With Aziz's Canopy Collision And Why?
Aziz was jumping together with several other novice Malaysian BASE jumpers, and a beginner Indonesian BASE jumper. Normally, multi-person jumps of this size would only be permitted for much more experienced BASE jumpers at the event due to the frequency that even so-called experienced BASE jumpers get it wrong. However, the under-experienced Malaysian BASE jumpers who had been put in charge of the event wanted to prove how good they were (or were not in this case).
Aziz was to be the highest person open, doing what is called a pilot chute assist (PCA) jump. His parachute would be automatically pulled open by a person on the launch point immediately after stepping off the edge. Aziz broke the one golden rule for someone doing a PCA jump on a multi-person jump. He failed to ensure that he did not jump off before others in the group nearby him did, so that no one could collide with his parachute. Such a mistake can be deadly.
The beginner Indonesian BASE jumper who was jumping next to Aziz slightly hesitated before he launched, and Aziz jumped before him. So Aziz’s parachute opened, and the beginner Indonesian BASE jumper who jumped off after Aziz fell straight into Aziz’s parachute.
Aziz’s parachute collapsed and streamered for a while. Luckily the beginner Indonesian BASE jumper managed to fall out of Aziz’s parachute and open his own parachute. Aziz’s parachute also eventually reopened. It is believed Aziz’s parachute was slightly damaged, but he managed to crash land into a tree which saved him from potentially getting seriously injured. They were both very lucky to survive what could have easily turned into a double fatality.
Ultimately Aziz’s incident happened due to his low level of actual BASE jumping experience, his carelessness, and inattention. However, the mistakes started much earlier on. KL Tower managers insisting on hiring people who had nowhere near enough experience, skill or integrity to organise such an event was the first big mistake that guaranteed serious issues would happen. The last time previous KL Tower managers insisted on organising their BASE jumping events in such a naive and reckless manner it quickly resulted in death. The current KL Tower managers were very quick to dismiss the deadly lessons of the past and were naively very keen to ensure that another fatality happens in the near future.
Another major factor was also the novice Malaysian BASE jumper’s strong desire to prove that they could do a job of event organising that they were nowhere near qualified to do. Many in the group may like to call themselves “experienced” BASE jumpers, but they are all relative beginners with low levels of skill, knowledge, and jump numbers. None of them has had any proper BASE jumping training and they are oblivious to everything that they do not know. The 3 main Malaysians in the organising team have all hit buildings with a very low number of BASE jumps. Some have slammed into buildings more than once.
A multi-person jump like that should be designed for BASE jumpers to have maximum horizontal and vertical separation when opening their parachutes. The novice Malaysian BASE jumpers did not engineer their jump plan to maximise safety due to their lack of knowledge and experience. As demonstrated, they did not have to skills to jump with the required timing, or the knowledge of all the potential problems. With inadequate knowledge and skills, they mostly rely on pure luck for nothing to go wrong.
Another factor was decaying all event standards to include a beginner in the event and on the multi-person jump. If a high risk is taken inviting a beginner BASE jumper, then it must be expected that they will do unexpected things. It is very common for a novice BASE jumper to not be able to jump precisely on cue. The beginner’s hesitation in jumping is something that should have been expected.
High profile BASE jumping events off buildings should adhere to reasonable entry experience requirements. It is highly negligent to invite people who do not yet have sufficient knowledge or skills to reliably deal with all the inevitable issues that they will encounter in BASE jumping. Only BASE jumpers who have sufficient knowledge, skills, experience, and a proven track record of being able to jump without incident should be invited to such events. Being accelerated on a path with insufficient knowledge and skills where serious injury or death is a likely outcome, is not helpful for a beginner BASE jumper. Beginners should be spending their money to do proper BASE jumping training with professional BASE jumping instructors at an appropriate location, rather than being a huge liability for a high profile BASE jumping event.
Aziz has been notorious in the past for bringing people with little or no BASE jumping experience to Malaysian BASE jumping events off buildings. He always gave them insufficient training or supervision, not that Aziz was ever really qualified to train them himself. They were always guaranteed to have an incident, and usually ended up crashing into a building, or getting injured in other ways. I previously stamped out this highly irresponsible practice in 2012 to stop Aziz getting beginners from getting seriously injured them killed. Now that Aziz has been given the green light to continue his negligent ways, he has not only put beginners’ safety at risk but he sabotaged his own safety.
Other Incidents At the Event
Aziz’s canopy collision was not the only collision at the event. After a decay in participant education and event standards, there was another incident where a BASE jumper collided with another BASE jumper’s parachute lines as the parachute was on its way to line stretch. They also got lucky to survive without injury.
This growing incidence of collisions is something that should be strongly noted. All the preventative measures that KL Tower managers took away, while ignorantly claiming that there are no safety issues, need to be brought back.
The event also saw a return of a BASE jumper receiving multiple broken bones when a BASE jumper crashed into KL Tower. His injuries included:
- Split lip.
- Lost teeth.
- Nose broken in a few pieces.
- Broken right wrist.
- Shattered left wrist.
- Left hand broken in quite a few places.
- Shattered left kneecap into several pieces.
There were also reports of a few other BASE jumpers who ended up with a broken or dislocated bone.
Such horrific injuries could have been easily prevented if KL Tower managers had not decayed all event standards, safety precautions, and eliminated thorough BASE jumper education.
Failure To Learn From The Previous Event
With the same repeated types of incidents at KL Tower BASE jump 2019, it was clear that KL Tower management and their inadequately skilled organising team did not pay attention to, or learn anything from the previous event in 2018. KL Tower management had decided to eliminate the accumulated wealth of knowledge from their events in 2018, hiring another BASE jumping organiser who had very limited experience at KL Tower. His lack of experience produced a record number of tower strikes, a record number of people getting hung up on the sidewall next to the landing area (including the organiser himself), and a return of a serious canopy collision at the event. From the very start of the event, they were observed doing exactly what is known to bring a record number of tower strikes while remaining in a strong belief that it was not an issue. Since they were all touting that there had only been one incident at the 2018 event, it is assumed they were probably oblivious about most of the incidents.
Even though I was not welcome at the event, I was still able to pay attention to many incidents I saw from photos and video online, and feedback from other BASE jumpers. I somehow seemed to know more about the incidents at the event than the novice organiser who was supposedly hired to know what went on at the event. The return of tower strikes and canopy collisions were 2 things that stood out that participants really needed to be educated about, along with the need for other preventative measures to put in place, to prevent a repeat of these issues. This was done in previous years until KL Tower managers decided to eliminate all advanced knowledge from the event. With KL Tower management and their unqualified organising team being very determined to continue with a high level of negligence in breach of their duty of care, the mistakes in 2018 were repeated at KL tower BASE jump 2019, but the results were much worse.
Why Does KL Tower Management Insist on Being So Negligent?
It is beyond any understanding why new KL Tower managers have been determined to do everything that is known to guarantee that serious injury and death will occur at Malaysian BASE jumping events. This attitude is not unique to Datuk Rozlan Mohamed and Mohd Dzulfiqhary Ibrahim. Several years earlier previous KL Tower management had the same attitude. They were people who just could not be told until they quickly achieved the expected outcome of a death. At least after the death, the high level of negligence was realised by a new CEO in 2010 Zuraida Mohd Said. She attempted to do everything she could to put Malaysian BASE jumping events back onto a responsible path. But when Mohd Dzulfiqhary Ibrahim started as KL Tower Events Manager in 2016, and even more so when Datuk Rozlan Mohamed was appointed to the position of KL Tower CEO in 2018. The new management were a level worse than past negligent KL Tower management. All the hard lessons had already been learnt with a lot of bloodshed, broken bones, and loss of life at past BASE jumping events. We had long known what works and what does not work. But the new KL Tower management went into strong denial about all the lessons learnt and insisted on going back to highly irresponsible methods of organising BASE jumping events that once again guaranteed serious injury and death would occur.
When I first met new KL Tower Event Manager Mohd Dzulfiqhary Ibrahim in 2016, he seemed very dismissive when I warned him that the event was being organised in a negligent manner. It became instantly clear to me that he would be of no help in cleaning up the negligence. During the event, other BASE jumpers also pointed out how dismissive he seemed when I explained to him how a poorly installed event infrastructure that failed could have easily resulted in serious injury or death. It turned out to be one of the worst events in KL Towers history. BASE jumper's families and personal crew members were subjected to KL Tower managers new force marketing practices which was seen as a form of extortion. The food KL Tower provided led to a mass case of food poisoning for most BASE jumpers and their families. This put BASE jumpers at high risk, and quickly destroyed their event and their families holiday to Malaysia. The head of the event safety crew Aziz Ahmad also seemed to be purposely sabotaging event safety. It had been promised to me for a few years that Aziz would be removed from his areas of incompetence, but each year when the event took place, I was informed that higher up management insisted on continuing with Aziz’s huge safety liability.
A year later in 2017, relatively new KL Tower Event Manager Mohd Dzulfiqhary Ibrahim became the prime person naively demanding that the event continue to be organised in a negligent manner. But it had gone well past the point that it was in any way acceptable and could not be allowed to continue. My efforts of neutralising the negligence to successfully eliminate many common types of accidents came at a very high cost. It resulted in me being dismissed from the KL Tower BASE jumping event after 17 years of involvement, along with being dismissed from other events I was involved with in Malaysia. It was also a very high cost to the integrity of BASE jumping events, with KL Tower management being very determined to do everything known to bring back a record amount of carnage at their event. They have again set up Malaysian BASE-jumping events on the path that ensures death happens in the near future, just like previous KL Tower management did several years prior.
Despite Datuk Rozlan Mohamed having no prior experience with the high-risk activity of BASE jumping when was appointed to the position of KL Tower CEO in 2018, he maintained a very strong belief that there were no safety issues with their BASE jumping events. This was despite the long history of serious accidents resulting in horrific injuries, partly stemming from the insistent negligence of their event contractors.
Datuk Rozlan Mohamed sent a letter to me insisting that statements I had published were false and threatened to prosecute me if I did not comply with his demands to publish an apology. This presumably included statements I had made regarding their negligence and safety issues with their event, as well as a graphic I published which highlighted their policy to ban participants of other Malaysian BASE jumping events that I organised from the KL Tower BASE jumping event. The graphic was created after their new BASE organiser Avery Badenhop informed many Sibu BASE Jump participants that KL Tower managers had requested that they be banned from the KL Tower BASE jumping event. Instead of bowing to his demands to make a fake apology so I could avoid their attempted prosecution, I publicly re-itemised the issues in much greater detail challenging him to identify what was actually false. I also requested the new KL Tower managers make a public apology to BASE jumpers for their past negligence, and for their devious conduct in requesting Sibu BASE Jump participants be banned from KL Tower (or for the conduct of their new representative ex-con Avery Badenhop if he was making up stories).
During a meeting I had with the new KL Tower CEO to find out what he believed was false, he could only state that he did not believe there were any safety issues with their BASE jumping events, and that he believed that I was the only one that believed there was. It is unknown what he based his opinions on. He still seemed in strong denial a few days later when they got a record number of tower strikes at their event with their new inexperienced BASE organiser. KL tower management was also in strong denial that they requested a ban of Sibu participants, and insisted that their new representative Avery Badenhop must have made it up. However, they remained in strong support of Avery and only wanted to prosecute me for it. The new KL Tower management’s strong denial of reality, and their threat of prosecution only gave the appearance that they were either very naive and easily misled by others, or that they were devious people.
It did not seem realistic to me that they could be in such strong disbelief about the negligence and safety issues with their event. The strong evidence of horrific injuries over almost 2 decades speaks for itself. However, there was never any shortage of people with vested interests constantly wanting to mislead KL Tower management. This regularly included Aziz Ahmad, along with other novice BASE jumpers and novice BASE organisers. Throughout my involvement with Malaysian BASE jumping events, it was always constant work correcting the misinformation that Aziz gave local event organisers. Aziz can be quite convincing if the person does not take any time to really find out about and examine reality.
In general, the new KL Tower managers just do not have the right aptitude to preside over such high-risk events. Their business model and the high-risk activity of BASE jumping safety are two things that should never be mixed. KL Tower managers failed to have any understanding that BASE jumping is not an activity for pushing sensible limits until people get seriously injured or killed. BASE jumping is an activity that must be treated with the high level of respect and caution that it demands. Decaying all event standards and safety precautions is a clear breach of KL Tower managers duty of care that has very high consequences.
BASE Jumpers Try To Silence Safety Warnings Before The Malaysian Events
KL Tower Management were not the only ones in strong denial about the level of negligence, and the safety issues that were guaranteed to leave BASE jumpers with serious injuries at their BASE jumping events. Many novice BASE jumpers were also naively in strong denial and they tried to silence all warnings given.
It is not uncommon for some novice BASE jumpers to insist that many of the issues which regularly happen at events are not a real problem. Or they believe they are too good to get caught out by any of the common issues that I had always highlighted at event briefings. Many of these people end up crashing in during the event, demonstrating how real the issues are.
The backlash from safety warnings started after I tried to educate Sibu Resident Charles Siaw about his level of negligence leading up to the 2019 Sibu BASE jumping event. The relatively new Sibu Resident had no real experience with BASE jumping events and appeared to be lured by KL Tower management and Aziz Ahmad to decay all event standards, safety precautions, and BASE jumper education for the Sibu BASE jump event. Leading up to the event I enquired to Resident Charles Siaw about what his plans were to minimise or eliminate the usual types of incidents seen at Sibu BASE Jump, since he had eliminated all safety precautions and thorough participant education from the event. I listed all the serious incidents that had occurred during the past 10 years, and the horrific injuries that had resulted. After a long learning curve with BASE jumping events off buildings, many valuable lessons had been learnt. The new Sibu Resident was happy to announce with blissful ignorance that he was confident that Aziz Ahmad and his team would make safety top priority. He had no understanding that Aziz and his team were the ones with the least knowledge and skills that needed to be educated the most, and their persistent high level of negligence needed to be contained. Resident Charles Siaw stood out as a man that could not be told. So I left him with a final warning that he would soon get a full understanding of his level of negligence when there are more serious injuries and another death at Malaysian BASE jumping events organised by Aziz and other novice Malaysian BASE jumpers.
Sibu Resident Charles Siaw obviously forwarded my message to Aziz and his team, as team member Haziq Azlan instantly tried to publicly ridicule my enquiries and concerns. Haziq Azlan is a young novice Malaysian BASE jumper who is easily led, and is always out to prove himself. A few years back Aziz Ahmad had stated that Haziq’s ego would soon get him into trouble. It did not take long after that before Haziq broke his leg while skydiving. Then on a BASE jump he crashed into a building, destroying his parachute. He has also crashed into the building in Sibu. During KL Tower events Haziq has been observed to have deficient canopy skills and judgement in reading the wind. He would often land short, and had one spectacular short landing crashing in through a tree. With no comprehensive BASE jumping training, he is purely a “Luck jumper” with a lot to learn.
Haziq Azlan is a young novice Malaysian BASE jumper who is easily led, and is always out to prove himself. A few years back Aziz Ahmad had stated that Haziq’s ego would soon get him into trouble. It did not take long after that before Haziq broke his leg while skydiving. Then on a BASE jump he crashed into a building, destroying his parachute. He has also crashed into the building in Sibu. During KL Tower events Haziq has been observed to have deficient canopy skills and judgement in reading the wind. He would often land short, and had one spectacular short landing crashing in through a tree. With no comprehensive BASE jumping training, he is purely a “Luck jumper” with a lot to learn.
After reading Haziq’s criticism on Facebook I offered him some safety advice which he initially took on board, until he no longer liked what he was hearing. Haziq was proud to announce they would have Zainol Abdullah as launch point coordinator KL Tower. Zainol was one of Aziz Ahmad’s team that turned up at the launch point level as the event started in 2017, stating that he had no training or instructions from Aziz other than to just show up there. He declined an offer to hang around for some on-the-job training and disappeared for the rest of the event. Zainol had done launch point coordination several years prior. While I had previously gotten on with Zainol well, his lack of knowledge about BASE jumping always rendered him to be more of a safety hazard for the event. In the past he often naively directed BASE jumpers to jump into headwinds which always guaranteed some BASE jumpers would crash into the tower, often breaking bones. It was one of numerous issues. Zainol had always stated himself that he knew nothing about BASE jumping and was not there to provide any level of safety or guidance. It was uncertain what Aziz’s team were paid to do at the event, other than to be a safety liability. The only way we were eventually able to eliminate tower strikes and some of the other common issues at the event was to replace Aziz’s substandard crew, with a more knowledgeable and trained crew. I had worked tirelessly to remove this type of negligence from the KL Tower event and Haziq now seemed proud to naïvely bring it back. Haziq became upset when I tried to educate him about the issues and he requested that I shut my mouth and don’t speak again until the accidents happen. This is quite flawed logic as it is a bit late to speak up about the issues after someone gets seriously injured or killed.
Haziq had also criticised an old video of me jumping at Alor Setar Tower, demonstrating skills jumping in very windy conditions. I could only offer Haziq advice that he should not attempt to do the same with his current limited skills, and told him how to progress in a slow and sensible manner. Haziq took offence at this advice, so I gave him one final warning that he would most certainly crash into a tree at Alor Star Tower with his low level of skills and experience.
It was no surprise when Haziq crashed into a tree at Alor Star Tower like I had warned he would. He always has a habit of proving me right when he is trying to prove me wrong. There are other trees at Alor Setar tower that Haziq will certainly crash into in the future when the wind is blowing from a different direction if he does not boost his knowledge and skills.
During the series of 2019 Malaysian BASE events, the novice Malaysian BASE jumping organisers were out to prove that underqualified Malaysians can do the job that they have insufficient knowledge to do. Trying to prove something when BASE jumping rarely ends well. They set up other new and novice Malaysian BASE jumpers to have accidents. A new Malaysian BASE jumper with insufficient training or skills hit the cliff and got hung up at Gua Damai (300 foot cliff). He was lucky to get away with his life. It is a very unforgiving location and not the place to try to learn to BASE jump. Another novice Malaysian BASE jumper mysteriously turned off course into a tall tree when he was attempting to do a flag jump from Gua Damai in front of a VIP. He crash-landed in a tree and got hung up in it. Jumping a low cliff gives very limited time to deal with any issues. Having a novice try to jump a flag, which he is not used to doing, while jumping a low cliff is asking for problems. Many experienced BASE jumpers in the past have been distracted by flags that get tangled up or wrapped around their legs.
And of course, Aziz tried to get himself and another beginner Indonesian BASE jumper killed at KL Tower.
Haziq was not the only one trying to silence my warnings about the accidents that were guaranteed to happen at their events. A member of my own Australian BASE Association gave me a stern warning about how disrespected I was becoming speaking up about Aziz and KL Tower’s negligence, after I had commented on how Aziz was always trying to get novice BASE jumpers killed. Others would come to Aziz’s defence stating what a great guy he is. While it is true that Aziz has been of immense help for many things, it does not excuse his insistent negligence at BASE jumping events.
There seemed to be an overwhelming call throughout the BASE jumping community to keep my mouth shut, and just let the accidents happen. Many of the young BASE jumpers seem to have tunnel vision for their personal agendas, and are carefree or ignorant about reality until they have to deal with the consequences of it. I had fallen into that trap myself 10 years prior during the first period that I had been expelled from organising BASE jumping events. When my warnings to the new novice event organisers were ignored, I just accepted and adopted the same carefree attitude as everyone else. I learnt the hard way with a fatal high-speed impact happening just meters away from me at Alor Setar Tower. I had vowed to never let that level of negligence happen at BASE jumping events again. Despite my never-ending effort to stamp out all the negligence, years later the ignorance determination of new KL Tower Managers, event contractors, and BASE jumpers to never learn and repeat such tragedies became much greater.
What Will It Take To Put Malaysian BASE Jumping Events Back On A More Responsible Path?
The 2018 and 2019 BASE jumping events should be looked upon as a strong warning for future Malaysian BASE jumping events. Event managers are following the same negligent path that previously resulted in a death. Malaysian event managers are not the type of people who can be told. Future tragedy is imminent if they do not correct the error of their ways.
Will it take another fatality before KL Tower managers get another wake-up call and start to organise their BASE jumping events in a responsible manner and start treating BASE jumping with the high level of respect and caution that it demands?
Note To KL Tower Managers
KL Tower managers should not take offence at this article. They should take it as a strong warning that they need to seek out reality from some of the world-leading BASE jumpers who have a thorough understanding of the insistent negligence in the organising of their BASE jumping events, and clean up their act. Do not get misled by practical beginners. There is no excuse for going back to past ways a decade ago where KL Tower management were naively determined to get people seriously injured or killed. Some people have paid a very high price with the loss of their life, or with a lot of bloodshed and broken bones, and lifelong injuries for the lessons to be learnt.
DO NOT BE SO NEGLIGENT!
DO NOT WAIT FOR ANOTHER DEATH BEFORE YOU LEARN
Update January 2021
Sadly it is too late to prevent a second death in Malaysian BASE jumping.
Don’t make it a third!
