Federal aviation authorities is looking into the fatality of a skydiving instructor after he got detached from his student during a jump in Music City, TN.
Authorities say trainer the instructor "is presumed to have fallen from the air without a safety chute" during the jump on the weekend.
Fuller, 35 years old, appeared to have separated from his client and a dual harness, which links the pair during a jump and contains the parachute.
A police helicopter located Fuller's body in a forested zone hours later. Local emergency crews used multiple pieces of equipment to access the middle-aged client who survived the fall after being stuck on a tree for hours with the backup chute.
Officials said three other dives, which took place near Nashville's John C Tune airport, were successfully completed before the fatal fall. The plane from which they jumped also touched down without issue.
The cause remains unknown how the instructor, an experienced skydiver, became separated from the protective gear.
A individual who helped rescue teams in the rescue told a media outlet the client who authorities saved mentioned "it was his first jump, and it was going to be his last".
The instructor had previously posted about his passion for instructing people how to parachute.
"Instructing individuals to skydive has always been in my view the most satisfying job at the jump site," Mr Fuller said in an social media update in June.
"Watching them figure it out and start flying their bodies is consistently a heartwarming moment. Occasionally though, it can become quite chaotic up there when you release a student for their first time."
That same month he posted photos of the wreckage a skydiving plane he was on noting the aircraft's motor had malfunctioned after take off. Every individual aboard lived through the incident.
