Two exceptionally experienced skydivers died this weekend in a freak accident when their parachutes became entangled, causing them to plummet helplessly some 150 feet to the ground.
\n\nThe accident, occurring during an organized dive in Southern California, took the lives of George Jean, 56 from Box Elder, South Dakota and Levi Pimentel, 29 of Auroa, Illinois, according to news reports.
\n\nThe two were rushed in critical condition from the event at Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead, according to the Riverside County Fire Department per a report by the Associated Press.
\n\nThe fatal mishap, which occurred around noon Friday, was not caused by a lack of experience.
\n\nPimentel was a lead skydiving instructor at iFLY Naperville in Illinois, according to her LinkedIn profile. Jean was the veteran of more than 1,700 jumps, according to her website.
\n\nJean, “a self-described mystic and former comedian, appeared to foreshadow the tragedy in a 2015 blog post detailing her rocky start in the sport,’” the California Post reported.
\n\nApparently, as a newbie Jean thought she would never be able to participate in the extreme sport, revealing she had failed the first level…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/
