Story out of Central Valley, California:
Two skydivers were killed Saturday during a tandem jump in northern California, authorities said Saturday.
Their bodies were found in a Lodi-area vineyard after someone reported that the skydivers hit the ground without an open parachute, San Joaquin County Sheriff's Deputy Les Garcia said.
It appeared the parachute did not deploy until after impact, he said.
Authorities were working to identify the bodies, but Riley said it appears the victims, both males, were in their 20s. One was an instructor, he said.
They had jumped from the Parachute Center, a popular skydiving school in the state's Central Valley whose website declares it "one of the largest and oldest drop zones in the United States," launched in 1964. Cont.
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