1 of 2 Skydivers Killed Was First-Time Jumper

Sheriff’s officials said both victims were men in their 20s and one was an instructor.

Bill Dause, owner of the Parachute Center, told NBC News that the instructor involved was highly experienced. Dause said he sympathized but there was nothing he could do.

“The parachute failed to function properly”.

Dause said other skydivers at the center continued with their jumps after the incident.

The sheriff’s office received a call about 10 a.m. indicating a parachute was down.

Salazar Turner said the instructor was found with his hand on the lever for a backup parachute but it was never pulled. The website says introductory tandem jumps from 13,000 feet, with an instructor cost $100.

On Saturday, August 6, two skydivers in California died when they attempted to do a tandem jump and their parachute failed to deploy. The only thing it looks like is something may have gone out of sequence.

A teenager celebrating the birthday of a friend is dead after he attempted to skydive for the first time with the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, California.

Dause told Sacramento television station KCRA it appeared “something may have gone out of sequence in the jump” and that wind and other conditions were flawless for parachuting.

“We didn’t do anything wrong”, Dause told KCRA-TV.

“I am always liable but I am not concerned”. In May, a small plane carrying 17 skydivers took off from the Parachute Center and landed upside-down after clipping a pickup. Citing a report in the local Lodi News-Sentinel, a solo skydiver was killed in February this year after another parachute malfunction. “You keep going. You feel sorry for the people who can’t participate any longer”.