A Columbian woman fell from the Amaga Viaduct bridge while bungee jumping last year, and there is still a discrepancy about why she took the leap without an attached cord.
Yecenia Morales Gomez, a Columbian lawyer, 25, fell to her death, allegedly because she misunderstood the instructions at the jump site.
The company, Sky Bungee, says the story about the jump has been misunderstood – not the instructions.
Gomez traveled to the bungee site with her boyfriend to try her first jump at the popular jumping spot called Sky Bungee Jumping.
According to the initial story, her boyfriend was the first to prepare for the jump. Both he and Gomez had their harnesses secured, but when the boyfriend was given the signal to jump, it was thought that Gomez misunderstood, thinking it was her turn, and she jumped off the bridge without being connected to a bungee cord.
She fell to the ground, and according to the autopsy report, she had a heart attack before she hit the pavement. Paramedics tried to revive her, but she was gone.
Gomez’s boyfriend, ran down the hills and suffered injury doing so, but he was unable to save her.
Mayor Gustavo Guzmán said that the tragedy was a result of a misunderstanding at the jump site.
However, the bungee company, Sky Bungee, gave a statement that contradicted the initial report that Gomez had misunderstood the instructions. The company said they had followed all safety protocols and that no one else had been bungee jumping at the same time as Gomez. They said that Gomez was not confused from the command given to her boyfriend. “At the time of the accident, nobody jumped, neither her boyfriend nor anyone else. Our protocol is designed for single jumps and with only one person per jump. It means that in order to jump a person must finish everything related to the previous person’s jump.”
That doesn’t explain why Gomez jumped, and the incident is still being investigated.