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Skydiving instructor dead after separation in air, student rescued
The instructor fell without a parachute after separating from the tandem rig, while the student was rescued after hours stranded, officials said.
- On Saturday, October 4, 2025, Justin Robert Fuller, a 35-year-old skydiving instructor, was found dead off Ashland City Highway after falling without a parachute, Metro Nashville Police Department said.
- Police say the instructor became separated at the plane from a tandem rig, and investigators believe the tandem rig's harness snag on the plane's edge triggered Fuller’s separation.
- Rescuers found the student lodged in a tree off the 4500 block of Ashland City Highway with an open emergency parachute, and the Nashville Fire Department used ladders and a pulley system to free him; he was awake, alert and taken to hospital as a precaution.
- The Federal Aviation Administration will lead the investigation while Go Skydive Nashville confirmed its plane landed safely at John C. Tune Airport and is cooperating fully.
- Friends and acquaintances noted Fuller had completed more than 5,000 jumps, and USPA reports 3.88 million skydives in 2024 with 9 civilian fatalities that year.
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