A 29-year-old champion skydiver was killed in Texas whereas making an attempt a high-risk touchdown.
Melissa Porter, from Perth, Australia, was testing the “swooping” manoeuvre on 24 June when she had a tough touchdown and fell into shallow water, ABC 13 Houston reported.
Witnesses stated her parachute was deployed however she was too near the bottom, in accordance with information.com.au.
Ms Porter, who received gold on the Australian Skydiving Championships earlier this yr, was rushed to hospital the place she was pronounced useless.
ABC 13 Houston stated investigators did not discover any blunt power trauma to her physique and have been not sure if she had suffered a medical emergency through the dive.
Ms Porter’s mom Vonnie instructed Australia’s 9NEWS: “She’s my baby and she’s not coming home.”
She stated her daughter liked the game.
“That was her happy place. She’ll forever be in the sky roaming the world now.”
Ms Porter labored as an teacher at Skydive Spaceland Houston.
Swooping includes a sequence of inauspicious manoeuvres that enable skydivers to “swoop” at excessive speeds over the bottom or water earlier than levelling off shortly for the touchdown.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade instructed the New York Post it was “providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian woman who died in the United States”.
“We send our deepest condolences to the woman’s family,” the division stated.
Ms Porter broke an Australian girls’s total-break sequential file in May when she accomplished the “2 point 23 way”, in accordance with information.com.au.
She instructed the Sound Telegraph, after successful the Australian championships along with her skydiving associate Josh Tassicker: “It was a shock when we took gold but it’s been amazing – it definitely makes me want to compete further.”
Source: information.sky.com”