"The student was found "lodged in a tree with an open parachute" in the woods off the Ashland City Highway, northwest of downtown Nashville, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement. The student "was able to walk away with only minimal, non-life-threatening injuries after being stranded for several hours," the Nashville Fire Department, which rescued the student, said in a statement."
"The 35-year-old instructor was "presumed to have fallen from the sky without a parachute" and was found dead off the same highway, police said. "Three other sky divers who jumped moments earlier landed safely," police said, noting that the plane had landed safely at John C. Tune Airport in Nashville."
An instructor was found dead in a wooded area off Ashland City Highway northwest of downtown Nashville after becoming separated at the plane from his student. The student was found lodged in a tree with an open parachute and was able to walk away with only minimal, non-life-threatening injuries after being stranded for several hours. The 35-year-old instructor was presumed to have fallen from the sky without a parachute and was found dead off the same highway. Three other skydivers who jumped moments earlier landed safely and the plane landed at John C. Tune Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating and the plane was operated by Go Skydive Nashville, which is cooperating; the instructor's identity is being withheld pending next of kin notification.
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