The parachutist's identity was being publicly withheld pending notification of his family. Navy Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs, was pronounced dead at the Jersey City Medical Center, Rear Admiral Jack Scorby told a news conference outside the hospital. The skydiver, a Navy SEAL commando performing as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard personnel pulled the parachutist from the water near the mouth of the Hudson River moments after the accident, witnessed by thousands of spectators watching the show from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. Navy's elite skydiving demonstration team plunged to his death on Sunday when his parachute malfunctioned while performing in an aerial exhibition as part of New York Harbor's annual Fleet Week festival. REUTERS/Bjoern Kilsīy Maurice Tamman JERSEY CITY, N.J. Coast Guard crews work on a parachutist in the waters of the Morris Canal after the skydiver's chute failed to open during an aerial exhibition as port of New York Harbor's Fleet Week festival in New York City, United States May 28, 2017.
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