A 35 -year -old parachuting instructor died after “presumed to have fallen from the sky without parachute,” Nashville police said Tennessee.
The instructor separated from a tandem platform with another parachuting, said the Nashville metro police department on X. The other person survived and was saved from a large tree with an attached parachute.
“An MNPD helicopter crew found the 35 -year -old instructor, who died in the elimination of a wooded area off Ashland City Highway,” the department said in an update on Saturday evening.
The name of the instructor has not been published publicly.
The incident involved a coordinated leap by Go Skydive Nashville, the company said in a statement. He deplored the “tragic losses” and said that she was cooperating in the investigation.
The second parachuting was found “hosted in a tree with a parachute open in the woods in the 4500 block of the Ashland City road,” said the police service.
The Nashville fire service published photos of the rescue on X. He said that the rescuers used “several” scales to reach parachuting, which was “awake, alert and stable after being suspended for hours” and was shot by a pulley system.
The Skydive Nashville website lists several requirements that its tandem institutions must meet, declaring that they “are highly trained professionals …” certified by the United States Parachute Association which “must follow in -depth training and certification before even trying a tandem parachuting with a real student”.
The company’s website indicates that its tandem parachuting equipment is regularly inspected and “meticulously maintained”.
“Your instructor has two parachutes, a large stable main parachute and a reserve parachute.
The USPA says that only 9 out of 3.88 million parachasts said in 2024 led to civil death, a record hollow since the holding of files in 1961.
Most parachuting accidents, according to the group, are caused by a “simple human error”.
Federal Aviation Administration Inquiry, police said. In response to a request sent by e-mail for more information on Sunday evening, an automatic response noted “limited communications” in the middle of the closure of the federal government.
