According to police, an Oklahoma woman died during a solo skydiving trip due to a freak accident.

Heather Glasgow, a skydiving enthusiast and mother of two, was on a solo skydiving flight at the Sallisaw Airport on February 18 when tragedy struck.

Saturday afternoon, the Sallisaw Police Department was dispatched to the airport after receiving reports of a skydiving accident. According to witnesses, Glasgow was skydiving when she began spinning uncontrollably and was unable to recover.

The police department issued a statement on Facebook stating that the parachute had fully deployed, but the woman continued to spiral before landing.

Glasgow was transported by responding officers to the Northeastern Health System, where she died at around 8 p.m.

Her relatives characterized her as a skydiving enthusiast who had previously participated in a tandem parachute jump. According to the police report, Glasgow had taken two first-timer jump classes at the Adventure Skydiving Center.

Police stated that they were cooperating with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office and the Federal Aviation Administration to determine the cause of the accident.

As soon as the news of Glasgow’s tragic accident became known, relatives and friends began posting condolences on social media.

According to the USPA, out of more than three million skydiving jumps in 2021, there were ten fatalities. The fatality rate in 2021 was the lowest in almost two decades.

In July of the previous year, a 59-year-old woman from Florida died due to a malfunctioning parachute while skydiving in New York.

According to the agency, tandem skydiving is significantly safer than solo skydiving since the skydiver is tethered to an experienced instructor. For the past decade, the fatality rate has been one person per 500,000 jumps.