A California skydiver was found dead on Sunday afternoon, in an apparent jumping accident in San Diego County.
Law enforcement officials in the Jamul area were sent to join the search effort for the missing skydiver at about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday at the glider port John Nichol's Field, according to NBC's local station in the Southern California county.
Deputies announced they'd discovered the deceased man by about 5:15 p.m. His identity has not yet been released, NBC San Diego reported.
According to Skydive San Diego owner Buzz Fink, the man, who was in his 20s, worked on staff as a trainer. He was teaching a group of people on John Nichol's Field at the time of the incident. Fink told NBC that the man was working on a move known as "tracking" when he suddenly bumped into the leg or knee of a colleague who was diving with him. Fink said he wagered the man might have sustained wounds that stopped him from deploying his parachute.
The other person jumping wasn't wounded and managed to land in the drop area.
According to Fink, the trainer had jumped more than 1,000 times before.
"We do well over 100,000 jumps a year, and we pride ourselves on our safety and everything we do as far as our equipment, our airplanes," the owner told NBC. "However, it is skydiving and things can happen and generally you do everything we can to prevent it. I liken it to driving down the road. You have a safety belt, an air bag. The bottom line is, you're still at a risk if someone crosses that line and hits your car."