Girl, 18, plunges to her death on birthday skydive when chute fails to open

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Schoolgirl plunges 1,300ft to her death on birthday skydive along with instructor

In a horrific turnaround of events, the chute speeds towards the ground at around 200km per hour.

In footage shared on local reports, a man can be heard saying: "My God, I hope that Liz come this way," as other skydivers land.Emergency services scrambled to the scene at around 3.43pm local time, and found their bodies at the nearby Mexico-Acapulco highway. Jorge Gaitan, the director of Albatros Parachuting, said the fall was not an accident caused by a malfunction in the equipment.He said: "We are investigating, but the parachute was working well.

"Everything seems to indicate that the release of the parachute was not an accident, because it was activated. "It wasn't equipment failure or anything like that. It surely had to do with someone who was on that flight, who manipulated and activated the release mechanism.

 

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