A skydiving trip turned deadly last weekend when a mother of two had trouble with her parachute in the air during a solo jump, police shared.
Heather Glasgow, 44, of Oklahoma, succumbed to the injuries she sustained during her fall at a hospital on Saturday night, the Sallisaw Police Department shared.
The department shared that Glasgow was skydiving at the Sallisaw Airport on Saturday when “an unknown issue arose during the skydive.”
Onlookers told police that her parachute appeared to have opened fully but that “she was in a spin that she did not recover out of,” resulting in her striking the ground, the statement shared.
Glasgow fell at around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday before she was taken to Northeastern Health Systems Sequoyah in critical condition. At just after 8 p.m., she was pronounced dead.
This was not Glasgow’s first time jumping from a plane, as police shared that she had conducted tandem skydives before and had taken two first-time jump classes.
Eyewitnesses said they don’t think she was conscious while she was falling, as Roland Preston told 5News that she “was just spinning in circles.”
“I feel like they were already unconscious in the air. Because if they would have been responsive in the air, they would’ve been kicking their legs,” Preston said. “They would have been trying to fight with their arms to control the parachute.”
The Federal Aviation Administration is assisting in the investigation of Glasgow’s death. It shared in a statement that it is looking into how her main and reserve parachutes were backed prior to the dive.
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