A 29-year-old woman from Aurora, Illinois, died Friday during a skydive. She collided in midair with another licensed skydiver at an event in California.
State authorities said the dead are 29-year-old Levi Pimentel and 56-year-old Georgia Jean of Box Elder, South Dakota. The tragedy occurred after their parachutes became tangled. Both women were licensed skydivers. The fatal accident happened around noon Friday at Skydive Elsinore, the company said in a statement. The freefall and parachute deployment went as planned, but as the skydivers were preparing to land, they collided at about 150 feet above the ground and their parachutes tangled, the company said.
“Both suffered life-threatening injuries upon hitting the ground,” Skydive Elsinore said in the statement. They were pronounced dead at a hospital. Pimentel was a lead instructor at iFLY Naperville, an indoor skydiving company. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the accident.
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Source: Polski.FM
