Here is the Report that came in just so people don’t wonder and start rumors on what happened. Eric will be missed by many he was a great friend.
Man killed in parachute jump from radio tower
Updated: 11/18/2004 10:08:44 AM
TOWNSHIP OF SOMERSET, Wis. (AP) - A Minnesota man has died while
parachuting from a radio tower in western Wisconsin.
St. Croix County Sheriff Dennis Hillstead said Erich Wagar, 32, may not
have known how close he was getting to the ground after jumping because
it was foggy.
Hillstead said the Brooklyn Park man and a friend from Hutchinson were
jumping from a radio tower Wednesday afternoon.
The sheriff said the two jumped from about 940 feet. Wagar's parachute
opened, but not in time to slow his impact into a hill.
Another person jumped shortly after Wagar, but was not injured.
Hillstead said the two men were experienced "free fallers" --
individuals who parachute, not from a plane, but from fixed objects such
as tall buildings, cliffs or towers.
Chris Jensen
edit to remove names by request of local jumpers ~TA
