Overview

• Jasmine Black, 48, a veteran jumper with more than 160 previous dives, struck another skydiver’s canopy as she neared the Thomaston-Upson County Airport landing zone on June 21.
• After cutting away her main parachute following the entanglement, Black’s reserve chute could not inflate because of insufficient altitude.
• Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore said deputies found Black’s body on the tarmac and confirmed that the Federal Aviation Administration is assisting in the probe.
• Skydive-Atlanta’s facility at the same airport recorded two fatalities in 2020 when a tandem jump emergency chute failed to open until too late.
• Last year the United States Parachute Association logged only nine civilian skydiving deaths out of more than 3.8 million jumps, highlighting the rarity of such accidents.