{"id":522088,"date":"2026-11-07T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522088\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:00:19","slug":"2-licensed-skydivers-killed-in-california-after-colliding-midair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/522088\/","title":{"rendered":"2 licensed skydivers killed in California after colliding midair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gettyimages-1718365705-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\">FILE: Skydiver (Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Two California skydivers who were part of an organized skydiving event died after colliding midair and falling about 150 feet to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">According to the Riverside County Fire Department, it happened in Lake Elsinore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> California skydiving accident\u00a0\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"livenowfox.com\/news\/2-licensed-skydivers-killed-california-after-colliding-midair\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Skydive Elsinore, where the skydivers worked, said the parachutes opened as normal and the free fall portion of the dive went as planned, but as they were getting ready to land, the two licensed skydivers collided, then plummeted to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/skydiving-instructor-dead-after-separation-air-student-rescued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Skydiving instructor dead after separation in air, student rescued<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">&#8220;The collision caused their parachutes to become entangled, and both sustained critical injuries when they reached the ground,&#8221; Skydive Elsinore said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">READ MORE: <a class=\"zReHs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/goto?url=CAEShgEBxCJF17hxpMT2vOfp8GjaHTJpMob2utfXh61reiYK9KQ7Ef8zStFo5sskBfW2irhxmiFWfeIHUrTQBuO4E2eH3smc5dFxoRTxRRYPMxGIFnGGaZ02RWjaJQ31y9kFhodebPFWzK4Ks16EdfO5PHYPbAHS4TCg9Gx7XVktQGacjD8FhNNQhw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11 skydivers, pilot die in Missouri plane crash, troopers say<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"livenowfox.com\/news\/2-licensed-skydivers-killed-california-after-colliding-midair\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">It\u2019s unclear what caused the two skydivers to collide. Their names haven\u2019t been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report includes information from Skydive Elsinore, the Riverside County Fire Department and The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE: Skydiver (Getty Images) Two California skydivers who were part of an organized skydiving event died after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,7,9,8,100,1181],"class_list":["post-522088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}