{"id":888318,"date":"2026-10-20T01:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888318\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:36:26","slug":"utsa-game-went-completely-silent-after-air-force-commandos-fatal-170-foot-plunge-from-rafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888318\/","title":{"rendered":"UTSA game went completely silent after Air Force commando&#8217;s fatal 170-foot plunge from rafters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horrified fans and performers fell completely silent after they witnessed an<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/18\/us-news\/air-force-commando-dies-after-falling-from-170-foot-rafters-during-fast-rope-demonstration-at-utsa-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Air Force commando fatally plunge <\/a>from 170-foot rafters at a University of Texas at San Antonio football game, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified airman slipped while rappelling from the Alamodome roof during a fast-rope demonstration involving four military personnel before the school\u2019s \u201cSalute to Armed Forces and Veterans\u201d game against Navy.<\/p>\n<p>A soldier falls while rappelling from the ceiling before a UTSA football game at the Alamodome. KSAT 12<\/p>\n<p>A soldier rappels from the Alamodome stadium rafters during an earlier event. @UTSAFTBL\/X<\/p>\n<p>The terrifying fall shocked tens of thousands of fans across the football field and caused the performing band to suddenly go hush as UTSA staff rushed to his aid, witnesses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/18\/person-falls-while-rappelling-before-utsa-football-game-at-alamodome-safd-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told KSAT.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the band started playing, there was a guy that fell down,\u201d witness Adrian Corey told the outlet. \u201cAnd started coming down fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was quiet, the band stopped performing. Everybody was dead silent,\u201d Corey said.<\/p>\n<p>The service member \u2014 who was assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2 \u2014 received medical care on the field for 10 minutes before being pulled off on a stretcher, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/military-officer-falls-alamodome-rafters-22482089.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Antonio Express-News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The terrifying fall shocked tens of thousands of fans across the football field and caused the performing band to suddenly go hush. KSAT 12<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force commando was taken to a local hospital, where he died. <\/p>\n<p>The four members who participated in the stunt, scheduled as part of the pregame coin toss, train as air combat controllers and are skilled in rappelling techniques used to descend from helicopters at heights exceeding 100 feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alamodome, owned by the City of San Antonio, has a ceiling roughly 170 feet tall. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of an Air Force service member following an unfortunate accident at Saturday\u2019s UTSA-Navy football game,\u201d San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said in a statement on social media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep his family in our prayers. May perpetual light shine upon him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American Conference also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/American_Conf\/status\/2111673377647636840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">statement on X<\/a>, saying they\u2019re \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consulted with representatives of both participating member institutions, Alamodome management, local authorities and a working group to review the information available,\u201d the conference wrote on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horrified fans and performers fell completely silent after they witnessed an Air Force commando fatally plunge from 170-foot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[19472,26522,399,398,396,397,6999,99,1022,194],"class_list":["post-888318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-air-force","tag-deaths","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-san-antonio","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}