Overview

• Officials identified the victim as 62-year-old Robert Szabo of Connecticut, who died Tuesday evening at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, three days after being injured during a skydive at Orange Municipal Airport.
• According to the Greenfield Recorder, Jumptown Skydiving said there was a midair collision between two experienced jumpers and that the injured skydiver landed under a functioning parachute.
• The Massachusetts State Police detective unit attached to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, the Orange Police Department, and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause.
• The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine Szabo’s cause of death, the district attorney’s office said.
• The FAA told reporters it is not responding to routine media inquiries due to a funding lapse, limiting available details.