Strong winds botch boogie

Strong winds botch boogie

JAKARTA (JP): Only three out of the planned four sorties were performed in the first day of the international boogie show in Bali and Lombok on Sunday due to strongwind.

Around 130 parachutists were engaged in the first and second sorties, done at 12,000 feet above Lombok's Selaparang airport, before performing the third above Bali's Kuta beach at sunset, Antara reported.

At the show, Eddy Christiono, supervisor of the Indonesian team, became the only home parachutist who jumped together with top world-class parachutists such as Alexis Perry of France, England's Rob Lalpus and Herman Landsman of the Netherlands, the show's instructor.

The 30-manned Indonesian team is scheduled to take part in the event after March 10. This is the third time such an event, which will last until March 17, has been held in Indonesia. The first and the second were held in Bali in 1989 and in Jakarta in 1991. (arf)