After the second skydiving death in the state in just over a week, all eyes are on this south-central Arizona town. Eloy is just south of Phoenix and home to Skydive Arizona, where people from around the country come to jump out of planes and take in the mountainous southwest landscape. The Eloy Police Department said Bowen used a "wingsuit-type apparatus.
According to Eloy police, Bowen died from injuries sustained during a "hard landing. Eloy police said more information would be released later. A Minnesota woman died while skydiving on Jan. According to previous reporting , many key details surrounding year-old Ann Wick's death have yet to be released.
Witnesses at Skydive Arizona in Eloy said they saw her parachute deploy but noted the canopy was turning. Skydive Arizona implied Wick was an experienced skydiver, completing jumps before her death.
Medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures on Wick, but she was later pronounced dead. The exact cause of death was still under investigation, as of Sunday afternoon. Four people died in a hot air balloon crash in Eloy on Jan.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the pilot and three passengers died as a result of an issue with the hot air balloon "envelope" — the large bag that fills with hot air to make the aircraft rise. The hot air balloon was a Kubicek BB One other passenger was seriously injured. The pilot was year-old Cornelius van der Walt of South Africa. According to the NTSB, the envelope was already deflated with the burner on, before the balloon hit the ground.
