29 May, 2017
The person is a member of The Leap Frogs, a US Navy parachute team including members of the Navy and Coast Guard.
Leap Frog performances typically feature six parachutists who jump from an aircraft at heights of up to 12,000 feet.
Fleet Week parachute accident. The Navy did not identify the jumper as his next of kin was still being notified.
An investigation is underway into the parachute accident that killed a U.S. Navy Seal on Sunday in New JErsey.
Video taken by ABC station WABC-TV showed part of the parachute coming down after the parachutist separated from his chute and landed in the water.
The SEAL crashed into the Morris Canal and was pulled from the water just after 12pm Sunday, local time, and later died at a nearby medical centre.
New York Fleet Week attracts thousands of people to the event each year as the Navy ships come into the harbor in all sizes from small ships right up to the big warships.
The group was conducting a coordinated jump into Liberty State Park shortly after noon, Rear Adm. Jack Scorby said in a press conference.
She said the parachutist was among four who drifted down from high in the sky from two helicopters. The result was confusion from the shoreline to the water, where spectators weren't sure what was happening. Eyewitnesses claimed that they saw the victim jumping from helicopters.
He said: "Almost the same time that they touched down in Liberty State Park we heard a splash and turned around very quick".
"I'm terribly saddened", said Nancy Malinowski, a Cranford, New Jersey, resident who was in Liberty State Park and knew something had gone wrong when she saw a parachute with nobody attached to it descend behind a building.
