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Despite fines, liens and a $40 million judgment, the Parachute Center near Lodi continues to operate amid concerns of lax regulatory oversight.

Despite fines, liens and a $40 million judgment, the Parachute Center near Lodi continues to operate amid concerns of lax regulatory oversight.

Woman who died at troubled Calif. skydiving center had made 2,000 jumps FacebookTwitterEmail Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. (Photograph is from the centers Yelp page, and does not depict any incident mentioned in this story.)Anthony R. via Yelp A woman who died last week in a parachute accident at the troubled Skydive Lodi Parachute Center had made thousands of previous jumps, the owner of the center said Monday. Sabrina Call, 57, of Watsonville, Calif., died Saturday when her primary parachute...

Yet another death at notorious Calif. skydiving center, bringing total to 22 since 1981 FacebookTwitterEmail Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. (Photograph is from the centers Yelp page, and does not depict any incident mentioned in this story.)Yelp Yet another skydiver has died at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. The skydiving school in San Joaquin County is now the site of 22 recorded deaths since opening in 1981. Nine of those deaths have occurred since 2016, according to the FAA. The woman, i...

Troubled Calif. skydiving school ordered to pay millions after another fatal jump FacebookTwitterEmail Lodi Parachute Center, Acampo, Calif.Yelp On Aug. 6, 2016, Tyler Turner, an 18-year-old from Los Banos who had just graduated high school with a 4.3 grade point average, went skydiving for the first time to celebrate a friends birthday. Turner jumped in tandem with an instructor. The parachute did not open, and the two hit the ground with a fatal impact. Deputies found the bodies in a vineyard...