Bill Dause, owner of the Parachute Center, said he was a veteran who had about 700 previous jumps. San Joaquin County sheriff’s officials have not identified the instructor killed Saturday in Lodi, 85 miles east of San Francisco. Francine Salazar told a newspaper Sunday that she accompanied her son Tyler Turner to the Lodi Parachute Center as he and several of his friends celebrated a birthday. SAN FRANCISCO — The mother of an 18-year-old man who was one of two skydivers who died plummeting into a northern California vineyard said her son was jumping for the first time. In February, the Lodi News-Sentinel reported that a solo skydiver had died after a parachute malfunction at the center.

Source: Washington Post August 08, 2016 01:41 UTC