THIS is the terrifying moment a parachutist who was landing at a music event lost control of his parachute strikes a man.
After trying a loop de loop as part of an air acrobatics performance at the Itapolis Aero Music Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the parachutist lost control of his equipment.
Videos of the parachutist’s spiraling descent show him colliding into a victim as he plummets into a public space.
Bystanders can be heard loudly gasping as Wagner Rubens Gaido, 63, who oversaw a branch of the Brazilian Credit Cooperative System, is struck and sent flying.
Gaido was impacted by the collision’s shockwave right on the top of his head, and he was declared dead at the site.
Along with the parachutist, two additional innocent festival-goers were harmed in the incident and sent to Santa Casa de Itapolis’ emergency room with unknown wounds.
Only one of the eight skydivers who performed in the event lost control of their parachute when jumping out of an airplane.
The festival’s organizers claim that the event adhered to the Fire Brigade’s and National Civil Aviation Agency’s safety guidelines.
Despite the unfortunate fatality, the festival went on, and authorities are currently investigating the situation.
Later today, on October 9, Gaido will be buried in the civic cemetery of Cosmopolis, his hometown.
This occurs just after a professional Russian parachutist died during a skydiving competition to celebrate Putin’s 71st birthday last weekend.
Dmitry Belyayev, 45, went into a body of water in Gudermes, Chechnya, and medical personnel battled to save him, but the member of the Russian national team perished in the accident.
A parachutist died in another instance last month after slamming into an airplane wing at 14,000 feet in France.
Nicolas Galy, a 40-year-old veteran skydiver, lost his head in the crash, but his emergency parachute released and pulled his body down to the ground.
