In new York, as you know, runs an annual festival and fleet Week. Unfortunately, this year’s celebration was not without incident. So, on Sunday during a demonstration performances of paratroopers, carrying out parachute jumps from a helicopter in the area of Hudson, one of the military’s parachute never opened. The man unfastened the gear to fall into the water, but due to the large height of the fall he suffered serious damage, hitting the surface of the water. A skydiver was taken to the hospital, but to save him failed, the injuries were incompatible with life.
Information about the identity of the victim has not been reported to identify the body of the family and giving them permission to do so.
Rear Admiral Jack Sorrow at the press conference said that the cause of the tragedy — in the «failure» of the parachute.
