People Keep Dying At This Skydiving Center

The latest death at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center comes on the heels of a $40 million lawsuit that the center lost in March after an 18-year-old and his tandem instructor fell to their deaths in 2016 when the parachutes couldn't be opened. 

The family's attorney told the Los Angeles Times, "He [the instructor] was still under a probationary period when they did the jump. And he did not have the appropriate emergency training."

Another accusation comes from someone who contacted the FAA following one of the deaths. 

"After the recent skydiving accident in Lodi, I had to say something. I refuse to skydive at the Lodi, CA skydiving center in Acampo or take tandem jumps knowing how rampant the ketamine, low dose LSD and pot smoking by tandem instructors have become. That was not there when I worked there. Plus, the foreigners and even the locals working there are not vetted by (exemption 6) to confirm if they even have a tandem rating or even the number of jumps they say they have," the person wrote, per the FAA website. "The recent skydiving accident could have been avoided by an experienced skydiver who knew how to pull the cords in the right sequence and was working with his full facilities."

However, Bill Dause told KCRA, "there is so much misinformation out there." He told the station of the recent death, "We're sad, but it's just like a car wreck or anything else. You have to go on."

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