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.”…