A man was killed while attempting to parachute from the top of a high-rise apartment building in San Diego as his 16-year-old daughter watched, according to police.
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“We’re unclear as to whether the parachute malfunctioned or if it just didn’t have enough time to open up properly and deploy,” Capt. Scott Wahl said. “We believe that his daughter was up on the rooftop with him, and was able to view what happened,” Wahl said. According to police radio traffic, a 911 caller heard a “loud pop” similar to a gunshot, looked over a balcony and saw the man bleeding on the ground, theOfficers and paramedics gave the man CPR, but he died before he could be taken to a hospital, officials said. He wasn’t immediately identified.
BASE jumping consists of parachuting from fixed objects. BASE is an acronym for the categories of objects people leap from: buildings, antennae, spans and earth, such as cliffs.The Associated Press
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