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Skydiving can be both exhilarating and terrifying all at the same time. Even the most experienced divers get a bit nervous about their jumps, but when they’re back safely on the ground, that all goes away. On Friday, November 6, 2026, Georgia Jean and Levi Pimentel traveled to Skydive Elsinore in California to take part in a skydiving event. Tragically, the two experienced divers collided in the air, and witnesses watched helplessly as they crashed to the ground.
Jean and Pimentel both died from injuries sustained in the accident, leaving behind a heartbroken skydiving community.
Both Jean and Pimentel had extensive skydiving experience.
The Associated Press reported that Jean, 56, started Circle of Life, a “collective of non-physical energy that transmit their wisdom, healing energy, and broader perspective” through Jean. She began skydiving in 2015 and participated in more than 1,700 jumps before the fatal accident.
Pimentel, 29, worked as the lead instructor at iFLY, an indoor skydiving company in Naperville, outside of Chicago. The women’s jump appeared to be going smoothly, but circumstances changed rapidly.
Skydive Elsinore confirmed the women’s deaths.
The company issued a statement about the horrific accident that occurred just before noon.
“Eyewitnesses report that the freefall portion of the jump was normal and uneventful, and that both skydivers opened their parachutes at the expected altitude. As they prepared to land, the two skydivers collided at approximately 150 feet above the ground. The collision caused their parachutes to become entangled, and both sustained critical injuries when they reached the ground,” the news release explains.
Skydive Elsinore shared “deepest condolences” with the family and friends of those killed in the terrible accident.
Jean made a frightening prediction more than a decade ago.
The New York Post reported that Jean shared about her first skydiving experience on a blog in 2015. She apparently failed the skydiving trainee program three times before her instructor told her she wasn’t a skydiver. Jean wrote that even though she had a feeling she was a “deathwish time bomb,” she continued her skydiving journey.
“Whether my instructor was right or not about limitations my body/mind had… I was able to overcome them, AND the incredible fear that I might be a ‘deathwish time bomb’ just waiting to go off,” she wrote.
The news saddened the skydiving community.
No one expected to see Jean and Pimentel collide or to have to stand by and watch as they fell through the sky.
“To see this happen today… and feel so helpless in the moment… Mother Nature had other plans, as that gust of wind came up so fast, caught everyone off guard… Just know they were having such a great time today, smiling, laughing and doing what they loved… The staff there at LE Skydive was fantastic and did everything as should be,” a witness shared on Facebook.
Other skydivers hope the accident won’t discourage others from trying the extreme sport.
“Thank you for this post. The sincerity and clarity you’ve provided is greatly appreciated. All of us left behind, still planning to skydive today, tomorrow and beyond, need to hear and know about all aspects of our sport. Safety awareness is a vital part of our training and the knowledge that sometimes things happen out of the boundaries of an individuals control is an important point to make,” someone wrote.
The women’s deaths remain under investigation.
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