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Australian skydiving instructor killed in an accident while attempting ‘new method’ of jumping

Melissa Porter, an experienced skydiver and instructor from Port Kennedy in Western Australia, was attempting a new jumping method on June 24 at the Skydive Spaceland Houston facility. When Porter jumped from a plane her parachute deployed, but she suffered a hard landing before falling into a shallow body of water. Authorities did not find any blunt force trauma to her body, and they don’t yet know if she had a medical emergency during the dive or if she died from the impact.