| Description: From Houston Chronicle:A parachutist in a weekend air show died after he lost control of his jump and crash-landed just yards away from spectators. [The jumper] died Sunday after suffering severe head trauma in the fall, said Tom Treu, a spokesman at Columbia Valley Regional Medical Center. The accident occurred minutes after Air Fiesta '96 began Saturday at the Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport. "It sounded horrible, like a cracking noise," said [observer], who was standing just yards from where Cantu landed. A friend of [deceased] who also made the jump said he did not know what went wrong. He said [the deceased] was an experienced parachutist who learned to jump in the U.S. Marine Corps.
From Skydiving: He made a sharp toggle input to his Triathlon 190 50ft. off of the ground. |