Wednesday, October 23

A woman dies while skydiving in a center where 22 people have died since 1981


The owner of the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center company said Monday that he was sad but that “it is like a car accident or any something else. You have to continue “

Muere una mujer mientras hacía paracaidismo en un centro en el que han fallecido 22 personas desde 1981
The victim’s parachute got entangled, according to your companion.

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A paratrooper died this weekend after an accident at a Skydiving from San Joaquin County that adds up 22 Deadly accidents since it opened in 1981. Nine of those deaths have occurred in the past five years, according to the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA

The San Joaquin County Colonel identified the deceased as Sabrina Call, a woman from 57 Watsonville Years . The person who jumped with her was the one who called the Sheriff’s office to report that the victim’s parachute had become entangled.

Call was a Experienced skydiver and the person who had packed his parachute (and with whom he jumped) did not belong to the company , according to the owner of Skydive Lodi Parachute Center , Bill Dause.

“We’re sad, but it’s like a car accident or something else. You have to continue ”, Dause said Monday to KCRA . In March, Dause was required to pay $ million dollars in March in relation to a previous death that also occurred in their center five years ago.

Bill Dause says a woman named Sabrina, with experience, in her 50 s died after her parachute somehow got tangled.

Live press conference on KCRA’s Facebook page. pic.twitter.com/E9hT8U2v5n

– KCRA Kay Recede (@KayRecede) April 22, 2021

FAA, which is investigating the accident, said that what it is paying attention to at the moment is limited to parachute equipment inspections .

“Federal Aviation Administration investigations into skydiving events are limited to inspecting the parachute equipment. The FAA does not investigate to determine the cause of the event, ”the federal agency said in a statement.

Death of a young man from 18 years and his instructor

August 6, 2021, Tyler Turner, from 18 years died next to the instructor with whom he jumped . Both the young man, who had come to the center for the first time to celebrate a friend’s birthday, and the instructor fell to the ground in a fatal impact.

Officers found the bodies in a vineyard south of the downtown landing zone. The Sacramento Bee later revealed that the instructor did not have the proper license.

In March, five years after the accident, Turner’s family received a favorable ruling that required the skydiving school owner to pay $ millions of dollars. The tens of millions of dollars fine specifically targets Dause, claims to be a skydiving legend with over years of experience.

Although the case of Tyler Turner has been the most talked about recently due to the sentence is not the last of the deaths that have occurred at Dause’s company, also called Skydivers Guild Inc.