A man has died following a skydive in Devon, police said.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to Dunkeswell Aerodrome, Honiton, at around 1pm today due to concerns for the welfare of a skydiver.<\/p>\n
A 49-year-old man was confirmed dead, Devon and Cornwall Police said.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the force said: “His family have been informed.<\/p>\n
“Scene guards remain in place currently, and enquiries are ongoing into the incident by the relevant agencies.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts remain with the family and friends at this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
The incident comes a year after two people died while skydiving in the area of Dunkeswell Aerodrome in June last year.<\/p>\n
Chiropractic student Adam Harrison, 30, died in the incident alongside 48-year-old mother-of-four Belinda Taylor.<\/p>\n
Paying tribute shortly after the incident, Ms Taylor’s son, Elias Baaklini, described his mum as a “caring woman” who was “always supporting no matter what it was”.<\/p>\n
Dunkeswell Aerodrome is located in the Blackdown Hills.<\/p>\n
It advertises activities including skydiving, wing walking and helicopter training.<\/p>\n
On its website, the site said it initially started as a World War Two Naval Base and is now a “vibrant and busy hub for the general aviation community”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died following a skydive in Devon, police said. Emergency services were called to Dunkeswell Aerodrome,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35884,49,50,117384,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-451628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across-the-uk","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-south-west","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}