© Provided by Xinhua HAIKOU, July 22 (Xinhua) In the blue summer sky over Hainan Province, a helicopter circles, reaching an altitude of 4,000 meter
The man s identity hasn t yet been released as police are working to notify his next of kin.
Ron Bell, the United States Parachute Association s director of safety and training, said Sunday s accident is the first fatality related to what s classified as a canopy collision since 2017 in the country.
The last skydiving-related death in DeLand occurred in 2017 when a man intentionally didn t deploy his parachute, according to News-Journal research.
Eleven skydiving fatalities were reported nationwide in 2020, a record low, according to the United States Parachute Association. The rate of deaths was equally as low in 2018.
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