BREAKING: A 34-year-old man has died after a skydiving accident on Victoria’s Surf Coast. | Ash_McMillan
A man has died after a skydiving accident on Victoria’s Surf Coast on Sunday morning.
Emergency services arrived at the scene near Breamlea Road in Connewarre, about 20 kilometres south-east of Geelong, at 10.30am.Credit:Investigators believe a group of people jumped from a plane in Torquay, with two landing near Breamlea Road. A 34-year-old Sydenham man died at the scene. A second skydiver who landed in the same area was not injured.
“The Australian Parachute Federation is at the scene and will investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident,” a spokeswoman for Victoria Police said.In July last year, skydiving instructor Arron Toepfer was killed when his parachute malfunctioned during a tandem skydive in Torquay. The other person in the tandem with Toepfer, a man in his 50s, broke his leg when they crashed into a paddock on Fischer Street in Torquay.
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