Skydiving Teacher In Fatal Central Valley Jump Lacked License
LODI, San Joaquin County (CBS / AP) -- The director of a skydiving certification group says the instructor who led a tandem jump in Northern California that turned fatal didn't have the advanced parachuting certificate required by federal regulators.
The only organization that certifies tandem-jump instructors says it has no records for 25-year-old Yong Kwon, who was killed with 18-year-old Tyler Turner on Saturday when their parachute didn't deploy over Lodi, between Stockton and Sacramento.
Ed Scott of the United States Parachute Association says the agency searched it records using several variations of Kwon's name and found nothing.
Scott said skydiving schools are responsible for ensuring their instructors are properly certified.
Bill Dause, owner of the Central Valley's popular Parachute Center that arranged the jump declined comment.
Turner's mother on Thursday called for an investigation.
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