LONGMONT, Colo. — A 60-year-old parachutist died Sunday afternoon after his parachute appeared not to fully open during a jump at Mile-Hi Skydiving in Longmont, marking at least the seventh death connected to the facility since 2018.
According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 3 p.m. Sunday to a field in the 10000 block of North 75th Street, west of Vance Brand Airport, after receiving a 911 call reporting a parachutist who was not breathing and not responsive. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been publicly identified.
A witness told deputies they saw the parachutist a few hundred feet above the ground, descending quickly in a spin, and it appeared his parachute was not fully open, according to the sheriff’s office. The parachutist was solo-qualified to make jumps…