The Associated Press
LUMBERTON, Miss. — One person has been killed and another has been injured in a skydiving accident in southern Mississippi.
Lamar County Emergency Management Director James Smith confirmed the fatality to the Hattiesburg American. He said the surviving skydiver has been transported to a hospital with fractures to his extremities and possible head injuries.
Smith said the two jumped in tandem during a Saturday flight conducted by Lumberton-based Gold Coast Skydivers, but that there was an equipment malfunction.
After the two didn’t show up at a nearby airport, Smith said Gold Coast Skydivers looked for them for a few hours and then notified authorities. The two were found in a swampy area more than a mile from the airport. No one answered a phone number for Gold Coast Skydivers Saturday night.