Woman who died at troubled Calif. skydiving center had made 2,000 jumps
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Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. (Photograph is from the center s 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 and her reserve chute tangled, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident was under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. In a statement, the agency said skydiving investigations are limited to inspecting the parachute rigging.
Glenda Williams told the media outlet.
Call was an
‘I mean she jumped out of airplanes, so she loved skydiving,’ Williams reiterated.
Contract rigging
Call had gotten married to her husband in September after first connecting over their love of skydiving.
The
Bill Dause, owner of the
Skydive Lodi Parachute Center, said Call’s primary and reserve parachutes had become tangled at some point.
‘No one saw what happened until the last couple hundred feet. She had two parachutes out and tangled with each other and they weren’t fully inflated,
and pointed toward the ground at very rapid speed,’ Dause told reporters.
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Woman killed in California skydive had made 2,000 jumps
April 19, 2021
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A woman who died in a weekend parachute accident in Northern California had made thousands of previous jumps, the owner of the skydiving center said Monday.
Sabrina Call, 57, of Watsonville, Calif. died Saturday when her primary parachute and her reserve chute tangled, the Sacramento Bee reported, citing the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident was under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. In a statement, the agency said skydiving investigations are limited to inspecting the parachute rigging.
A contract parachute rigger had packed her chute, according to the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, where the accident occurred.
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