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A skydiving instructor was dead and his student remained hospitalized following a tandem jump incident Saturday outside Houston.
The business Skydive Houston, about 40 miles outside Houston, said in a statement Sunday that its instructor, whose name was not revealed, had died at a hospital after the 12:30 p.m. incident Saturday.
The student, an unidentified woman, "is reported to be suffering from serious, but non-life-threatening injuries at this time," the Waller, Texas, business said.
Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry said in a statement Saturday that a “chute didn’t open or collapsed somewhere through the fall."
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This is local news for me. I have a bunch of friends who have went to that very place to learn to skydive or do their jumps, This is the first accident there. Whatever, you will never catch me jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Good news is at least the student survived.
The business Skydive Houston, about 40 miles outside Houston, said in a statement Sunday that its instructor, whose name was not revealed, had died at a hospital after the 12:30 p.m. incident Saturday.
The student, an unidentified woman, "is reported to be suffering from serious, but non-life-threatening injuries at this time," the Waller, Texas, business said.
Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry said in a statement Saturday that a “chute didn’t open or collapsed somewhere through the fall."
Skydiving instructor dead following tandem jump near Houston
The teacher was engaged in the jump with a student who was critically injured when the pair struck the ground.
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This is local news for me. I have a bunch of friends who have went to that very place to learn to skydive or do their jumps, This is the first accident there. Whatever, you will never catch me jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Good news is at least the student survived.
