Tandem skydivers become separated, with one falling to his death and the other hanging from a tree

Firefighters free a skydiver caught in a tree after he became separated from an instructor during a tandem jump on Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville Fire Department Washington —

A skydiving instructor fell to his death in Nashville this weekend after a tandem jump went wrong and he somehow became separated from the other skydiver and their parachute.

A tandem jump is when two skydivers, usually an instructor and a beginner, are harnessed together and share one parachute.

The student was found hanging about 50 feet up in a tree with the open chute, Metro Nashville Police Department said on X Saturday . He was hanging there for hours, before the Nashville Fire Department was able to free him from the harness and assist him down a ladder with a pulley system.

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