LODI, Calif. (KRON/AP) — A person has died after a skydiving trip went wrong near the Lodi Parachute Center, according to KRON4’s affiliate FOX40.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the person had been wearing a wingsuit when they crashed Wednesday.
The Woodbridge Fire District has called the incident a parachute accident.
District Chief Steve Butler says the man who has not been named landed in a vineyard.
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident.
Butler had said no additional details are available.
Three people died last year in accidents near the Lodi Parachute Center. A tightly packed skydiving plane carrying 18 people also landed upside down in an Acampo vineyard last May.
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