In 2003, Dwain Weston died at the inaugural Go Fast Games when he crashed into the 1,053-foot-high Royal Gorge Bridge and fell onto rocks below the world’s highest suspension bridge.

Weston and Jeb Corliss had jumped from an airplane in wingsuits, which have fabric extending below the arms to the body, with more fabric between the legs, allowing sky divers to catch the air and travel more horizontally.

They were supposed to free-fall until they reached the bridge, with Weston, a 30-year-old Australian, going above the bridge and Corliss going below it.

But Weston miscalculated his distance from the bridge and struck a railing while traveling about 100 mph. There were about 200 people on the bridge at the time of the accident. Corliss, one of the world’s premier wingsuit flyers, recalls the accident:

“Dwain was always one of those guys who pushed everything as hard as he could and as far as he could. We’re getting ready to jump out of the plane and he grabbed me by my hand and looked me in the eye and said something really bizarre. He said, ‘Whatever happens, happens.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ I’d done a lot of really scary jumps, really dangerous jumps. As far I was concerned, this was going to be a pretty safe jump, this was pretty straightforward. I wasn’t even that concerned to care about it. So I was a little shocked at how nervous he was.

“So we jump out of the aircraft, we’re flying toward the bridge. I can’t really pay attention to him too much because I’m a little bit busy. I only saw him out of my peripheral (vision) for a split second. All of a sudden, I notice from my angle that I’m going to hit the bridge. So I start dumping air to make sure I don’t hit it.

“As I’m flying up underneath the bridge, all of a sudden I see his parachute deploying — basically in my face. I didn’t understand why his parachute was opening so high. It was really dangerous for me, because all of a sudden, I have to worry about hitting him. I swerve and miss him and then I notice that there’s all this kind of stuff floating in the air and I don’t really know what this stuff is. I was having difficulty understanding what was going on. I thought maybe people were throwing stuff off the bridge.

“But I kind of blocked it out, saying, ‘I don’t have time to think about this right now, I just need to fly.’ I continue flying, I open my parachute, I land and at first I think, ‘That was perfect. That jump couldn’t have gone more perfect.’ I went from this super high, like, ‘That was the best wingsuit flight in my life,’ to all of a sudden looking up and seeing Dwain’s canopy hitting the cliff.

“As his canopy hits the cliff, I’m saying, ‘What? He hit the cliff?’ Someone down there says to me, ‘He didn’t hit the cliff, he hit the bridge.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And then all of a sudden I look down and I’m covered with blood. The stuff floating in the air? I had flown between him and his severed leg and his shoes and just a bunch of debris. He basically blew apart when he hit the bridge. I went into shock.”