June 21, 2015 - An expert skydive instructor with ... experienced parachutist - identified by the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office as Andrei Penz, 30 – jumped at 1:30 p.m....

Skydive San Diego skydiving death · News · Update March 31: The victim has been identified as Jordan Janway, 27. Janway is the brother-in-law of NASCAR racing champion Jimmie Johnson and sister to Johnson's wife, Chandra. By Miriam Raftery · March 30, 2014 (Otay Mesa) –A skydiving instructor ...

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April 1, 2024 - In response to a records request in 2023, the San Joaquin County Medical Examiner’s Office provided SFGATE with coroner’s reports detailing many of the 28 fatalities conclusively linked to accidents at the center, the first in 1985 and the ...

July 31, 2014 - Thomas Steve Clark, 53, jumped from a plane shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as part of a group from Skydive San Diego, but his parachute did not open before he fell onto a field off the 13500 block of Otay Lakes Road, according to the county ...

August 6, 2024 - “She missed the first one, and when she maneuvered around it, she hit the second one,” said Chase, who is also a skydiver and has hundreds of thousands of social media followers. At that point, she was about 25 to 30 feet in the air…

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June 6, 2025 - Last month a San Diego resident fell to his death during a skydiving exercise when his parachute did not deploy. The man was an experienced sky diver, and his parachute was equipped with a device that would have automatically opened the chute ...

July 19, 2020 - A skydiver has died following an accident near Skydive San Diego Sunday morning.

June 20, 2015 - An experienced skydiver died Friday afternoon in the Jamul area of eastern San Diego County, the Sheriff’s Department said.

February 20, 2012 - A San Diego skydiver who died during a contest was an instructor with more than 8,000 jumps and an expert in "swooping," a dangerous ground- and water-skimming maneuver that he was doing when he was killed, authorities and skydiving experts ...

August 1, 2014 - SAN DIEGO — A skydiver who died Wednesday in a jump near Lower Otay Lake may have committed suicide, authorities said. The 53-year-old San Diego resident, identified by the San Diego Medical …

March 18, 2025 - The instructor had been employed by Skydive San Diego, and his fatal injuries also resulted from a “hard landing” at the facility after his parachute failed. The owner of Skydive San Diego cited the faulty parachute in the man’s death, explaining that “the entire parachute turned underneath itself and collapsed, so he ended up falling over 100 feet.”

October 3, 2024 - The most recent skydiving deaths in California occurred in August when instructor Devrey LaRiccia Chase, 28, and student Kayla Black, 28, both died in a tandem jump at Skydive Perris in Riverside County.