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Premature parachute opening paralyzed instructor, leading to two deaths in Ulster County, medical examiner concludes
PLATTEKILL, N.Y. — An autopsy has found a skydiving instructor was incapacitated by a premature chute inflation during an accident that killed him and his student two weeks ago in southern Ulster County.
The Dutchess County medical examiner said 25-year-old instructor Alex Chulsky of Brooklyn became paralyzed from a spine fracture in the June 15 accident, according to the The Journal News of White Plains. Chulsky also suffered an aortic injury.
Chulsky was strapped in a tandem harness with 49-year-old David Winoker of Chappaqua, Westchester County.
Winoker, who had three children, was buried on Father’s Day.
The parachute problem is known as a “hard opening.” In the rare occurrence, the chute prematurely inflates and violently jolts.
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