A 45-year-old British man who was seriously injured in a parachuting incident on Sunday has died as a result of the accident.
Skydive Algarve which runs the centre at the Alvor aerodrome, Portimão is cooperating in an investigation while eye-witnesses to Sunday’s accident say the skydiver was caught by a strong gust of wind just as he approached the land and that he crashed into a wall.
Rescue workers at the scene said the injured skydiver had gone into cardiac arrest, was given resuscitation on site and then was rushed to the Barlavento Hospital for treatment which ultimately did not manage to save his life.
The man was taking part in an international skydiving festival which sees aficionados and experienced skydivers from all over the world congregate in Alvor, a key venue in the international skydiving scene.
The council-owned aerodrome is a well known skydiving centre with thousands of successful jumps carried out each year and there is no suspicion that anything other than bad luck, or maybe bad judgement, was involved in this latest fatality.
Three years ago this month the well-respected Algarve businessman Jonathon Wickham died in an accident at the airfield, since which two further skydivers, Ana Peixoto and Stefan Hewekeri have died in separate jumps that went tragically wrong.
