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Skydiver Dies at Freefall Convention

Updated: January 7, 2009
A Minnesota man fell to his death today during the Rantoul Freefall Convention. 57-year-old Mark Foster died this morning on a jump. He tried a new landing called the hook maneuver. That`s where a diver tries to do a hundred eighty degree turn whil

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