SEAL team member dies during Fleet Week parachute demonstration- PB/TK
Navy parachutist dies after crash during Fleet Week demonstrations – CBS news/ May 28 2017
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — – A Navy Seal team member has died when his parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week demonstration over the Hudson River.
A Navy spokesman said the accident occurred shortly after noon Sunday near Liberty State Park.
The parachutist was a member of an elite Navy parachute team called the Leap Frogs.
The victim wasn’t identified pending notification of family.
Members of the Coast Guard went into the water to retrieve the parachutist, who was then rushed to a nearby hospital, CBS New York reports. He was pronounced dead at a hospital at 1:10 p.m.
The cause of the parachute malfunction is under investigation.
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