The review was triggered by an incident in which a parachutist was hurt while making a rough landing during NDP 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The Red Lions will jump over only one location at the National Day Parade in 2023, and will not land at various locations in the heartland as they did during the Covid-19 period, The Straits Times has learnt.
Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said a day later that while 3WO Heng was injured, he did not require surgery and was expected to make a full recovery. Possible measures the committee was looking at to enhance safety included increasing the distance between parachutists so as to give them more reaction time as they approached the landing zone, and to enable the landings to be more spaced out.
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