the best yelp page I ever saw with for a skydiving place in Lodi because majority of reviews were very positive and like "we had a GREAT time, check out these pics!" and then every third one would be like "this is the place that killed all those people."
— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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SFGate from April 2024:
It’s impossible to calculate the fatality rate per jump at the [center], because no one keeps track of how many people jump out of planes there — or how many have died while doing so. In 2018, [the former owner] told Sacramento’s KXTV-TV even he wasn’t sure how many deaths had occurred at his business.
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FAA communications manager ... told SFGATE the agency does investigate skydiving deaths, but not the cause of them, and its authority to regulate the sport is limited.
NYT in October 2024:
A skydiving instructor who used someone else’s credentials to train people in tandem jumping at a troubled facility near Lodi, Calif., was sentenced this week to two years in prison.
Yelp.
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