Two women have lost their lives in a parachute crash that led to their collision in California.

Levi Piemale, 29, from Illinois, and Georgia Jean, 56, from South Dakota, visited Elsinore Skydie, a parachute jump center, on November 6, the media are writing, records Telegrafi.

According to NBC, one witness described the jump as abnormal and without incident, until women opened their parachutes and crashed about 45 meters above the ground, causing their parachutes to get completely confused with each other.

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Women were sent to the Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildormar, where the death of the two was confirmed.

In a Facebook post, the Elsinore Skydies stated that women were experienced parachutists and licensed.

The post added that the two parachutists were in the area to participate in organized activity at this center.

Winds from the northeast were reported, at speeds reaching up to 20 miles per hour (about 32 km/h) near the air base March Air Reserve Baseway, located about 14 miles (about 22 km) away from the parachutism center.

Investigators have not yet determined whether weather conditions have affected the crash.

The parachutism centre said there is no indication of any problems with equipment and that it is co-operating with local authorities.

Jean, who described himself as a mystic and had previously been a comedian, once expressed fear that it was like a time bomb with a desire to die because it had been difficult for him to master parachutism when he started the sport.

In a post on her blog in 2015, she indicated that she had failed the first level of training three times, until an instructor had told her she could simply not parachute.

However, she did not give up.

Jean performed more than 1,700 parachute jumps and was also successful in the competition; according to her Facebook page, in 2024 she won a bronze medal with the team called Port Fyrst Frothı, in a form of parachute jump in mixed formations.

Piemel was also deeply involved in the sport; she had been working for more than eight years at iliFLY Naperville ) a parachute-throwing centre in closed facilities in Illinois é where she served as the main instructor.

It also organized training camps for those who aspired to become parachutists, while on Facebook it described itself as an optimist, someone who feeds remote hopes and dreams that seem impossible.

Both women were familiar with each other even before the fatal jump. /Telegraph/