{"id":338922,"date":"2026-07-13T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338922\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:25:11","slug":"man-injured-while-skydiving-at-miami-homestead-general-aviation-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338922\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured while skydiving at Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A man was injured while skydiving with an instructor on Monday at the Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man, who is a student, suffered leg bone fractures while landing during a tandem jump, according to an airport official. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded shortly after 10:40 a.m. to Southwest 219 Avenue and 287 Street, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/firecalls\/calls.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/firecalls\/calls.html\">dispatch records<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue used a helicopter to fly the man, who suffered traumatic injuries, to Jackson South\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center, according to MDFR personnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez and Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Rosh Lowe\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM Updated:\u00a0July 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-338922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}