LODI, CALIFORNIA — A morning skydive turned fatal after malfunctioning equipment led to the tragic deaths of two men. <br /> <br />CBS San Francisco reports that an 18-year-old boy was skydiving for the first time at the Lodi Parachute Center on Saturday. He was accompanied by family and several other people. <br /> <br />The boy, identified as Tyler Turner of Los Banos, California, did a tandem jump with a veteran instructor who had reportedly performed about 700 previous jumps previously. After the two jumped from a plane 13,000 feet up, the parachute failed to eject, sending the pair plummeting to the ground. <br /> <br />Both men died. Their bodies were found in a vineyard south of the landing zone at around 10 a.m. <br /> <br />Despite the deadly accident, other skydivers went through with their jumps and the center remained open the rest of the day. <br /> <br />The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. <br /> <br />The owner of the dive center maintains that they didn’t do anything wrong, reports USA Today.
