‘Shock and horror’: Skydiver dies after trying to deploy emergency parachute

Jasmine Black always felt most at peace when she was thousands of feet above the ground, basking in the glory of Earth’s horizon after she jumped from a plane.

The 48-year-old Locust Grove resident was on her 163rd skydive Saturday afternoon when her life was cut short after a mid-air collision, her family and authorities told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I can’t describe the shock and horror that we felt when we realized she had died in this accident,” her mother, Carol Black, said Monday. “She absolutely loved skydiving. She said, ‘Mom, I feel like I’m one with the universe when I’m (in the air) … because you see the whole arch of the sky and the horizon.’ She felt closest to God when she skydived.”…

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