{"id":517610,"date":"2026-04-07T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:51:07","slug":"skydivers-death-at-headcorn-aerodrome-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517610\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydiver&#8217;s death at Headcorn Aerodrome under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said the death was being treated as unexplained and an investigation was under way in liaison with the regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GoSkydive, which operates at the airfield, said that the incident involved a solo skydiver who was operating independently of GoSkydive&#8217;s operations, which is focused exclusively on tandem skydiving experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the individual involved, their family and all those affected by this tragic incident,&#8221; a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would like to express our sincere thanks to all emergency services, air support and on-site personnel for their swift and professional response, as well as to the ground teams that assisted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the death was being treated as unexplained and an investigation was under way in liaison with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-517610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517610","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=517610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}