ACAMPO, CA. (THECOUNT) — The veteran skydiver who died after her parachute failed to deploy at the Lodi Parachute Center has been identified as 62-year-old Nena Lowry.
(ORIGINAL STORY:) Folks are sounding off on social media after a veteran female skydiver plunged to her death at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center, in Acampo, CA on Sunday.
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Soon after the sad news broke that an independant skydiver had died Sunday afternoon after her chute failed to deploy, Facebook comments started snowballing, a vast majority asking, “why is this place still open?”
Since opening in the early 1980s, 19 deaths have been tied to the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. Six of those deaths, including Sunday’s fatality, occurred between 2016 and 2018.
The FAA determined the unidentified skydiver was killed when her parachute failed to properly deploy. At the time she was using her own parachuting equipment which means she would have been responsible for packing her own chute.
Fellow jumpers say the woman killed this afternoon at the Lodi parachute center had decades of experience in the sky.
Early in 2018, the Department of Transportation and the FBI served a warrant at the Lodi Parachute Center. Manager Bill Dause said at the time that agents had taken hours of skydiving video, as well as credit card transaction data.