FAA report details harrowing 10-minute struggle after skydiving student and instructor got caught on plane, ending in instructor sacrificing himself

FOX Nashville reporter Kelly Avellino says new information from the FAA is shedding light on a deadly skydiving incident near Nashville that happened back in October.

This wasn’t a story about a parachute failing to open in the sky. It was a story about something going wrong at the worst possible moment – right as an instructor and student exited the aircraft.

Avellino reports the pair were jumping in tandem, harnessed together, when a strap caught on a step along the plane…

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