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[11 Oct 2011 | No Comment | ]

Las Vegas, NV —A tandem skydive with an instructor and a 75-year-old grandmother ended in tragedy when two parachutes did not open and both people died.  Claudette Porter of North Las Vegas received the skydiving adventure as a gift for her birthday from her granddaughter.  The instructor, James Fonnesbeck, was a veteran skydiver who had over 11,000 jumps. Fonnesbeck was also one of the Elvis Presley impersonators who jumped from an airplane in the movie “Honeymoon in …