A Davis veterinary technician broke her hip and femur last month skydiving at a Northern California facility with a history of tragedies, but she lays blame for the incident elsewhere: her own hair.
Elizabeth Stewart, 25, has been recovering since an early October jump from the Parachute Center near Lodi. The drop zone has been the site of more than two dozen fatalities, as The Sacramento Bee reported in a 2023 investigation.
“This was not Lodi’s fault,” said Stewart, who has been jumping recreationally for about a year and a half. “It was just an accident.”…