A 55-year-old skydiver with hundreds of jumps worth of experience tragically died during a jump in Eloy, Arizona.
A Minnesotan was killed in a skydiving accident in Arizona on Friday. According to the Eloy, AZ, Police Department, first responders were called to Skydive Arizona around 4:06 p.m. on Friday on a report of a parachutist “experiencing complications during descent.” Despite medics trying to save her life, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
With over 275 successful jumps under her belt and a need for speed, Ann Wick geared up and took to the air for her fifth or sixth skydive on Friday afternoon. The Stillwater nurse had spent the day with four other women practicing a special formation dive about an hour outside of Phoenix.
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An investigation is underway following the skydiving death of a Stillwater resident in Arizona last week. It happened Friday afternoon in the city of Eloy, where local police say Ann Wick, 55, experienced "complications" during a descent at Skydive Arizona:
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