Sgt. 1st Class Corey Hood of Cincinnati, Ohio, an experienced Army skydiver with more than 200 free fall jumps and 75 military static line jumps to his name, died from injuries sustained during a midair crash with another diver during a Chicago Air & Water Show event.
Hood had served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported. He was 32 when a Cook County medical official pronounced him dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Hood collided with another skydiver during a performance by parachute teams with the Army Golden Knights and Navy Leap Frogs, AP reported. Golden Knights spokeswoman Donna Dixon said Hood crashed into one of the Navy’s team members while parachuting, and was knocked unconscious, “which resulted in an uncontrolled offsite landing,” she said.
A witness told the Chicago Tribune Hood actually hit the roof of a nearby high-rise building.
“His legs caught the tip of the roof and then he fell over,” the bystander said. “It was horrible.”
The other parachutist was not identified but was treated for a broken leg, AP reported.
