After deputies arrived at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, they located the bodies of the tandem jumpers in a field, according to the sheriff’s department.
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Two skydivers – a student and his instructor – were killed Saturday in a tandem jump in northern California, officials said Saturday.
U.S. authorities said the two men were found dead in a vineyard in Acampo.
The other was his instructor, but his name hasn’t been released.
An investigation is ongoing and the Federal Aviation Administration is involved.
She said she never saw her son come down with his instructor because she couldn’t tell where they were in the distance and didn’t know the colour of their parachute. No other details were immediately available.
Two sky divers were killed Saturday morning when their parachute apparently failed to open, authorities said.
Authorities still were trying to reach one of the men’s families for notification, sheriff’s Sgt. Brandon Riley said Sunday. The wind and other conditions were ideal, he said.
He said: “The parachute failed to eject properly”.
Dause said the first-time skydiver had been making a tandem jump Saturday with a veteran skydiving instructor, who had made about 700 other jumps. The worse injuries anyone suffered “were minor cuts and scrapes”.
Dause told Sacramento television station Channel 3 (KCRA) on Saturday that it appeared “something may have gone out of sequence in the jump”.
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The skydivers were jumping from an area considered popular among enthusiasts. “It’s a love of the sport”. Before that, in February, according to the Lodi News-Sentinel, a fatality resulted when a solo skydiver died while skydiving.
