A young schoolgirl has tragically fallen to her death<br> from a plane while she was trying to skydive on her<br> birthday. <br><br> <img class=img src="https://www.tori.ng/userfiles/image/2019/mar/28/Vanessa.jpg"></img><br><br> Vanessa Ivonne Melendez Cardenas was celebrating<br> her 18th birthday with the 1,300ft parachute jump in<br> Mexico<br><br> A schoolgirl girl plunged 1,300ft to her death on a<br> birthday skydive after her parachute failed to open -<br> and the operator insists its chute wasn't to blame.<br> Vanessa Ivonne Melendez Cardenas, 18, died along<br> with instructor Mauricio Gutierrez Castillo, 34, in<br> Morelos, Mexico on Sunday.<br><br><br> She arrived at the Albatroos Air Sports Club with her<br> loved ones at around 3pm and was keen to<br> celebrate her 18th birthday in style.<br><br> Along with a group of others, she was assigned to<br> Mauricio, an experienced instructor with more than<br> 400 jumps under his belt.<br><br> The pair boarded a plane, from which they jumped<br> and soared through the skies for at least two<br> minutes, local paper El Grafico reported.<br><br> In footage shared on local reports, a man can be<br> heard saying: "My God, I hope that Liz come this<br> way," as other skydivers land.<br><br> <img class=img src="https://www.tori.ng/userfiles/image/2019/mar/28/Vanessa1.jpg"></img><br><br> <b>This is the moment high school student Vanessa<br> plunged to her death along with instructor Mauricio<br> Gutirrez Castillo</b><br><br> But moments later he realised "Liz", Vanessa, was<br> not among them.<br><br> Emergency services scrambled to the scene at<br> around 3.43pm local time, and found two bodies<br> near the Mexico-Acapulco highway.<br><br> Jorge Gaitan, director of Albatros Parachuting, said<br> the fall was not an accident caused by a malfunction<br> in the equipment.<br><br> Instead, he insisted one of the two victims had<br> caused the horrific fall.<br><br> He said: "We are investigating, but the parachute<br> was working well.<br><br> "Everything seems to indicate that the release of the<br> parachute was not an accident, because it was<br> activated.<br><br> "It wasn't equipment failure or anything like that. It<br> surely had to do with someone who was on that<br> flight, who manipulated and activated the release<br> mechanism."<br><br> <img class=img src="https://www.tori.ng/userfiles/image/2019/mar/28/Vanessa2.jpg"></img><br><br> <b>Vanessa and Mauricio's bodies were found lying<br> metres away from a highway</b><br><br> The skydiving company said the parachute's release<br> was activated at an altitude where "it was<br> impossible for the parachute to respond".<br><br> Gaitan added: "That doesn't end up happening by<br> accident: it is caused by a human.<br><br> "We are in those investigations. We still do not know<br> what happened."<br><br> The area remains cordoned off by police as they<br> carry out investigations.<br><br> <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8736954/girl-plunges-death-birthday-skydive/">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8736954/girl-plunges-death-birthday-skydive/</a>
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