A woman died Saturday following an incident at an Oklahoma skydiving center involving an unrecoverable spin.
Emergency officials were dispatched to the Sallisaw Airport at roughly 3:30 p.m. following the accident at Adventure Skydiving Center, according to a report.
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A female, identified as 44-year-old Heather Glasgow, had been conducting a solo skydive when she experienced an unknown problem, according to the Sallisaw Police Department.
Witnesses reported that Glasgow’s parachute had deployed, but she became caught up in a spin she was unable to recover from, police said.
“The body that was on that parachute was just spinning in circles,” one witness said.
“I mean, it was completely sideways,” he said. “I feel like they were already unconscious in the air because if they would have been responsive in the air, they would’ve been kicking their legs. They would have been trying to fight with their arms to control the parachute.”
All the witness could do to help was call 911, he said.
“There’s no way that the individual could have even lived through that,” he said. “Just hearing the thud, the distinct sound … the way it sounded when the person hit. It was traumatizing.”
Glasgow sustained several injuries and was rushed to Northeastern Health Systems Sequoyah, where she was declared dead around 8 p.m.
She had already completed a tandem skydive and attended at least two first-time jump classes at Adventure Skydive Center, according to the report.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the incident along with local authorities, and the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office is cooperating to help ascertain a cause for the accident, the report noted.
