Skydiver dead after accident in Chester County

Skydiver
Photo credit Chester County

Chester County authorities are withholding the identity of a man who died in a skydiving accident Saturday. The 35-year-old man is reported to have been a veteran of more than a thousand jumps.

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Skydive-Carolina operators say, the parachute -- his own -- had fully opened and he was about to make a normal landing, but did not level the 'chute for a soft touchdown. A forensic autopsy is scheduled.

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