June 26, 2019
HONOLULU — The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday called on the Federal Aviation Administration to tighten its regulations governing parachute operations after a skydiving plane in Hawaii crashed and killed all 11 people on board. The NTSB recommended to …
December 29, 2011
Authorities were investigating the death of a skydiver who died after a jump in Perris – the sixth skydiving fatality at the popular Southern California locale in the past 15 months. Firefighters were called to Perris Valley Skydiving Tuesday afternoon …
October 21, 2011
Officials at Fort Bragg say there were no serious injuries in a parachute accident earlier this week. The Fayetteville Observer reported a special operations soldier hurt Tuesday appears to have escaped serious injury. A second soldier was taken to Womack …
October 11, 2011
Officials say two skydivers died near the Nevada-Arizona border Sunday after their parachute failed to open. Police in Mesquite, Nev., say the instructor and student were on a tandem jump before noon when their main parachute failed. Mesquite police spokesman …