A mother of four and her skydiving instructor who were killed after their parachute failed to open have been pictured.

A MUM who died in a tragic skydive had joked about doing the tandem jump on unlucky Friday the 13th, her family revealed.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Woman who died in Arizona skydiving incident did not pull reserve parachute, officials say ...

Jessie Farrington, who will be 76 in September, has skydived about 10,000 times and averages 200 jumps a year.

Victoria Cilliers' parachute failed during ... Airfield after her parachute and reserve failed, The Guardian reported, citing authorities. An experienced skydiving instructor, Victoria ...

Skydive Arizona officials also said they ... FAA officials said Wednesday that the agency will investigate how the main and reserve parachutes were packed as well as flight rules for the pilot ...

"The reserve (parachute) deployed perfectly ... laid there -- this would probably be the last jump he would ever make. Skydiving is something Hughes had always wanted to do when he was serving ...

The company also said skydiving rigs have a computer called an Automatic Activation Device (AAD), which deploys the reserve parachute if the skydiver doesn’t deploy it manually. “There’s ...

And in the skydiving world, that's like super new ... I should have pulled my reserve parachute. However, I thought that I had a lot more time than I did. I miscalculated that and because I ...

nor was the reserve parachute deployed," the company said. "The injuries sustained during landing proved fatal." Wick completed 267 jumps before her death, Skydive Arizona said. The company said ...

Skydive Arizona, the Eloy-based company that saw a Minnesota woman fall to her death during a parachuting incident on Friday, released a statement offering condolences to her friends and family. "The ...