MINNEAPOLIS — A Stillwater woman died Friday in a skydiving accident in Arizona after her parachute became tangled, preventing her from deploying her emergency chute, according to officials.
An investigation is underway after a Minnesota woman died in a skydiving accident in southern Arizona last week.
Authorities are still investigating to determine an exact cause, but said in a press release that there were "complications" during the dive.
A Minnesotan was killed in a skydiving accident in Arizona on Friday. According to the Eloy, AZ, Police Department, first responders were called to Skydive Arizona around 4:06 p.m. on Friday on a report of a parachutist “experiencing complications during descent.” Despite medics trying to save her life, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ann Wick, 55, of Minnesota was skydiving in Arizona when she encountered a problem during her descent. She had completed 267 jumps before her death.
Ann Wick, a registered nurse who grew up in Burnsville, had jumped hundreds of times before, her brother said.
Police responded to the skydiving center, where the 55-year-old Minnesota woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ann Wick, 55, was skydiving when she encountered a problem during her descent. She was pronounced dead despite efforts from medical personnel.
Ann Wick, 55, died while parachuting at Skydive Arizona in Eloy on Friday, Jan. 24. Eloy police said that live-saving measures were performed in an attempt to save Wick, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
ST. PAUL — A Stillwater, Minnesota, woman died Friday afternoon in a parachuting accident in Eloy, Ariz., police said. Ann Wick, 55, died around 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25 after “experiencing complications during descent” at Skydive Arizona, which is billed as the largest skydiving facility in the United States.
ELOY, Ariz. — A 55-year-old Minnesota woman died Friday while skydiving in Arizona after experiencing "complications" during descent, according to police. Ann Wick died while parachuting at ...
Ann Wick's parachute "fully" deployed "as designed" before her death, according to the skydiving company A 55-year-old woman from Minnesota died in a skydiving incident in Arizona last week, authorities said.