The Red Lions will jump over only one location at the National Day Parade (NDP) 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. According to tender documents seen by ST calling for a...
In that same week, Dr Ng said a review committee led by the SAF Inspector-General Office had been convened to assess the cause of the incident. The committee includes independent skydiving and military freefall experts outside of the SAF.
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. The Straits Times has contacted Mindef about the review’s outcome, and whether the lack of heartland jumps is a result of it.
In 2020, 2021 and 2022, the daredevil freefallers landed at several locations across the island to bring the parade to Singaporeans amid restrictions on crowd sizes that limited celebrations at the Marina Bay area.
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