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John Edward Jones got wedged into a narrow passageway inside a Utah cave in 2009, and he never came out

A rope-pulley system was used to attempt a rescue, but an "equipment failure" put things back at square one

An avid spelunker, Jones died upside down 27 hours after rescue missions began

It was a few days before Thanksgiving in 2009 when John Edward Jones, his brother and a few others went to explore a cave in Utah, about 55 miles from Salt Lake City.

An experienced spelunker, Jones — a father of one with another child on the way — chose to explore a section of the Nutty Putty Cave known as the “birth canal,” a narrow passageway that eventually opened to a larger area, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

As he worked his way through the cave system, he discovered tha

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