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    Joseph James Wingen (47) dies in Chula Vista accident, officials say

    https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-...ista-accident/

    CHULA VISTA ? A 47-year-old skydiver died Sunday after experiencing a medical emergency during a jump from a plane near Otay Lakes Road, authorities said.

    The skydiver?s parachute opened and he drifted off course before landing, where a San Diego County Sheriff?s helicopter located him at about 11 a.m., according to Deputy Fire Chief Harry Muns of the Chula Vista Fire Department.

    ?They noticed he started going off course,? Cal Fire public information officer Thomas Shoots said. ?Everything, by all accounts, went fine with the parachute release. Everything seemed fine with his chute, but they noticed he was not headed for the air strip ? he was headed northwest of Sky Dive San Diego.?

    A San Diego County fire chopper lowered a firefighter to where the skydiver had landed, Muns said. He was then transported to Otay Lakes Road and paramedics began performing CPR.

    At about 11:40 a.m., the skydiver was pronounced dead and an official with the San Diego County Medical Examiner?s Office was called to the scene.

    The skydiver had been a customer at Skydive San Diego, where the skydive plane took off, since 2002 and had made 40 jumps, according to the company?s business manager, Catherine Bedell. He was experienced and licensed, she said.

    Skydive San Diego shut down operations for the rest of the day Sunday.

    ?He was really excited this morning to be jumping again,? Bedell said.

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    Wow, sounds like he had a heart attack on his way down. What an awful way to go....
    You are talking to a woman who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    Wow, sounds like he had a heart attack on his way down. What an awful way to go....
    Maybe, but since he loved doing this it may have been his preference to go while skydiving. I knew a doctor who always said when it was his time he wanted to go doing his rounds and he did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by up2trouble View Post
    Maybe, but since he loved doing this it may have been his preference to go while skydiving. I knew a doctor who always said when it was his time he wanted to go doing his rounds and he did.
    Trying desperately to think of something I love so much that I want to die doing it. Oh yeah, sleeping.
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