An incident is under investigation that resulted in two people being critically injured during a skydiving accident outside of Houston on Saturday, a sheriff said.
The two injured were attached while skydiving, an instructor and a woman. They made their jump but had trouble once in the air.
Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry said that their "chute didn't open or collapsed somewhere through the fall," resulting in the pair being injured after their landing.
A witness who lives in the area shared with Click2Houston that he could see the pair struggle while falling.
"He let off his primary and then the secondary shoot like opened halfway up, so he didn't fall like a straight fall he was like 50 percent shoot, like a corkscrew," Alex Arias told the news organization.
The sheriff said the two were found breathing but unresponsive near Waller, Texas, 40 miles from Houston. They were taken by helicopter to a nearby trauma center for medical assistance.
The sheriff described both as in critical condition, and the instructor, a man, was undergoing surgery.
"She's better off than he was, but still in critical condition," Guidry said.
The two were diving with the company Skydive Houston in Waller, according to the sheriff. The skydiving company did not respond to NBC News' request for comment.
There had been no issues with the company in the past, according to the sheriff. Their website also claims to have had over 50,000 jumps with no injuries and a "perfect 100% safety record."
The jump and how the parachute could have malfunctioned are still under investigation.
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