Tourist plunges to her death in horror skydiving accident 'after slipping out of harness'

Paulina Biskup, 38, experienced problems with her parachute arsenic she descended to the crushed (Image: Jam Press)

A tourist's skydiving thrill turned to nightmare arsenic Paulina Biskup plummeted to her decease during a expected escapade of a lifetime. The Polish national, who had made Dublin her location for studies, encountered terrible trouble soon aft deploying her parachute, tumbling uncontrollably towards the world successful beforehand of shocked onlookers.

The convulsive swinging question ended successful fearfulness arsenic she slipped from the harness and fell aggregate feet to the ground. Harrowing video footage captures gut-wrenching screams arsenic her parachute implodes, starring to her fatal descent into the tract below.

This gruesome incidental occurred Tuesday astatine Roldanillo's fashionable Aguapanela paragliding tract adjacent Bogota, Colombia, wherever 38 twelvemonth aged Paulina faced calamity specified moments station take-off. Despite reports that rescue teams responded swiftly, attempts astatine resuscitation proved futile.

Local outlets bespeak she succumbed to profound injuries sustained upon impact. Paulina, described arsenic being with her spouse and friends, was not participating successful a concurrent paragliding lawsuit successful the vicinity. Renowned for its perfect airborne conditions, Roldanillo attracts galore to what's often touted arsenic Colombia's "paragliding capital", with Aguapanela offering spectacular vistas and aerial currents sought by enthusiasts.

A section authoritative claimed she 'didn't fasten her harness properly' (Image: Jam Press)

Paulina, a Trinity College Dublin postgraduate based successful the Irish capital, tragically mislaid her beingness successful a paragliding accident, arsenic per her societal media. A section official, who wanted to stay anonymous, informed the press: "It seems she didn't fasten her harness properly, which caused her to fall."

Roldanillo authorities person confirmed that an enquiry into the distressing incidental is ongoing.

In a related account, Jordan Hatmaker from Virginia Beach recounted his harrowing acquisition of surviving a autumn from an craft aft his parachute malfunctioned. During his last leap of the day, his parachute failed to deploy correctly, sending him spiralling uncontrollably and plummeting to the crushed astatine speeds exceeding 60mph.

Speaking to the Mirror, helium detailed: "Everything was good during freefall, but past I pulled my chute. The aviator chute wrapped astir my close limb a fewer times. I tried desperately to get it off. Time slowed down for maine but I was falling truthful fast. I thought I had a batch much clip than I did. I was trying to get it disconnected my leg, and past I tried to get my footwear disconnected but I had treble knotted my shoelaces due to the fact that successful a erstwhile leap 1 of my shoes fell off. (The teacher really caught it successful the air.)

Towards the extremity of the footage, the parachute collapsed successful connected itself (Image: Jam Press)

"At 750ft the automatic activation instrumentality fired, which is similar a reserve parachute which opens erstwhile you get to a definite altitude without deploying the main parachute. My reserve parachute came retired which jolted capable to marque my main parachute travel out. But the 2 canopies were flying adjacent to each other, dragging distant from each different and started maine spinning into the ground. This was 200ft supra the ground.

"It happened truthful fast. I was wholly retired of control. I conscionable retrieve reasoning that the crushed was coming up truly really fast. And I retrieve thinking: 'This is going to hurt.'"

Her parachute began swinging from side-to-side (Image: Jam Press)