Sgt. 1st Class Corey Hood, 32, from Cincinnati, Ohio, died after he collided midair on Saturday with a Navy Leap Frogs member, whose identity has not been released. As per the medical examiner, on Sunday, Hood died at 4:05 pm. “These maneuvers are highly skilled”. “All of a sudden, they’re in the plane, then they’re not in the plane”, Shore said.
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“The family anxious that something might happen to Mills while he was deployed”, Mills said.
Dixon said Hood collided with a member of the Navy’s precision skydiving team.
“Hood was knocked unconscious, which resulted in an uncontrolled off-site landing”, she said in a statement.
The last skydiving fatality for the Golden Knights was in 1994 when Staff Sgt. Pres. George H.W. Bush went on many tandem jumps with the Golden Knights, Dixon said. She believed this was the fourth fatality since 1959. The first was in 1970, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and the second was in 1980 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, according to the Golden Knights Alumni Association website. The Chicago Air and Water Show continued on Sunday, but the Army Golden Knights and Navy Leap Frogs chose not to perform.
Authorities say he and another parachutist collided while performing a stunt Saturday.
“They were all just great guys”.
According to CBS Chicago, “The Golden Angels have canceled activities planned for Sunday Air & Water show, Dixon said”.
Hood recently served as a forward observer as a demonstration parachutist for the Golden Knights’ Black Demonstration Team.
Family members have confirmed Hood is from West Chester and attended Lakota West High School. “I’m honored to have known him”.
One witness said it was terrifying in light of the fact that he was still alive however his eyes were shut and he didn’t appear to be available to the occasion. “He was tough mentally and physically”. Hood, calling the latter a hero after spending nearly half of his life serving the US Army.
He served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and is survived by a wife and two children, officials said.
A Lakota West alum, this is where the seeds for his success were planted.
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An update of the condition of each parachutists remains unconfirmed at this time. “It was really just devastating”, said Adam Weiner, a witness.
