A 75-year-old student skydiver and her instructor died on a tandem jump when their main parachute failed to open yesterday.
Local police and officials believe that the unnamed pair died accidentally after jumping over Mesquite, just inside the Nevada border, close to Arizona, around noon.
Mesquite police spokesman Jeffrey Smith said that the instructor tried to deploy a backup chute, but it only partially opened and didn't do enough to slow the pair before they hit the runway at Mesquite Municipal Airport.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047352/Student-skydiver-75-instructor-die-tandem-jump-parachute-fails-open.html
Monday, October 10, 2011
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