Female skydiver, 37, suffers horrific propeller death while taking photos at Kansas airfield

A pistillate skydiver and lensman has died aft backing into a propeller portion taking pictures astatine an airfield successful Kansas.

The woman, identified connected GoFundMe arsenic 37-year-old Amanda Gallagher, died connected Cook Airfield successful Derby connected Saturday according to Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office.

She had been snapping pictures of radical getting connected and disconnected planes astatine the Air Capital Drop Zone erstwhile she backed into an progressive propeller, per ABC affiliate KAKE.  

Friends who paid tribute to Gallagher connected Facebook said she was a nonrecreational lensman from Wichita, Kansas, adjacent to the airfield.  

Emergency services were called to the country connected Saturday astatine astir 2.40pm. They airlifted the pistillate to the infirmary wherever she died from her injuries. 

'Amanda Gallagher was kind, adventurous, originative and beauteous wrong and out,' a fundraising leafage for the pistillate reads. 

'She was a loving daughter, sister, aunt and person and volition beryllium greatly missed.' 

Gallagher started skydiving earlier this period and became hooked aft her archetypal attempt, according to her Facebook page. 

She posted a video of herself falling from a level with the caption: 'This was my archetypal solo jump!! I'm successful love.' 

Gallagher besides shared an representation of herself posing beside a level successful skydiving cogwheel a week aboriginal with the caption 'best feeling ever.' 

Friends paying tribute connected Facebook remembered Gallagher arsenic a 'young, talented photographer' who was a 'kind and gentle beingness successful the world'.

Gallagher's GoFundMe page is raising funds to screen her ceremonial work costs. So acold much than $6,000 has been raised. 

'On October 26th, Amanda passed distant successful a precise bittersweet accident, doing what she loved, skydiving and taking pictures!' the fundraising leafage reads. 

'As her household processes done this tragic accident, they could usage your assistance covering the ceremonial expenses. 

'Please see helping them retired and besides keeping them each successful your prayers.'

The incidental is nether investigation.