Dutch Skydiver Lay Dead In Field For Days

Scene where Dutch police found
Mark van den Boogaard

Dutch skydiver Mark van den Boogaard recently made global impact, but certainly not the kind he or anyone sane would want to court. Recently, Van den Boogaard flew with a number of others to dive over The Netherlands. All jumped out of the plane as planned. All safely landed on the ground, except the unlucky Mr. Van den Boorgard. He simply landed.

Van den Boogaard's body lay in a Dutch field for over a week, according to a BBC report on the incident. Oddly, no one noticed he was missing. No one saw his corpse, or at least splattered human remains, in the field. Finally, some rabbit hunters encountered what was left of the skydiver.

Van den Boogaard was self-employed, was something of a loner, and apparently didn't have a significant other or at least a fuck buddy to wonder where he was. The incident, and Mr. Van den Boogaard's personality, seem lifted from a French existentialist novel. It's likely, however, that his skydiving technique strayed from anything recommended in a skydiving manual.