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Admin · Posted February 2nd, 2009, 08:26 AM

Tandem skydiving is where an instructor is strapped onto a student and they jump out of the airplane together. The instructor typically does most of the work to land both safely on the ground. This instructor, however, died seconds after jumping from the plane.

Original story is here.

Tandem instructor dies mid-jump; other man survives

A 49-year-old skydiving instructor died of an apparent heart attack Saturday afternoon, seconds after jumping out of a plane with a first-time diver.

The pair were attached to the same parachute in a form of skydiving known as a tandem-jump.

The men's identities were not immediately available.

When they landed on the ground, the diver tried unsuccessfully to revive his instructor using CPR. But the heart attack occurred about a minute into the jump, and too much time had elapsed for the instructor to have any chance of surviving, said Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker.

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TamaMum · Posted February 2nd, 2009, 08:45 AM

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dear gawd.... what a 'mare that would be...

it's an amazing (and sad) story - but I had to LOL at one of the comments on the news site :
Another good reason NOT to jump out of a perfectly good plane. :p
(I have to say... I agree with them)

Miss Matchmaker · Posted February 6th, 2009, 08:35 PM

Well it's a good thing he survived.

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Man takes tandem skydiving lesson, instructor dies mid-air during lesson

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TamaMum Senior Member Posts: 793 Blog Entries: 4 Thanked 130 Times LOLed 118 Times	#2 Posted February 2nd, 2009, 08:45 AM ... dear gawd.... what a 'mare that would be... it's an amazing (and sad) story - but I had to LOL at one of the comments on the news site : Another good reason NOT to jump out of a perfectly good plane. :p (I have to say... I agree with them)

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Miss Matchmaker Member Posts: 171 Thanked 5 Times LOLed 7 Times	#3 Posted February 6th, 2009, 08:35 PM Well it's a good thing he survived.