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Skydivers killed in accident
Two tandem skydivers fell to their deaths when their main and reserve parachutes opened only partially, authorities said. Paul Joseph, 30, and Reed Michael Loeschke, 28, were found just before noon Sunday in the yard of a vacant home in southern New Jersey and were pronounced dead at the scene. Joseph was an instructor at Freefall Adventures, a skydiving school. He and Loeschke were making a tandem jump, a practice in which an instructor and inexperienced skydiver are bound together, authorities said. The jump, which took place around noon, was from a plane owned by Freefall Adventures, police said. Staffers from Freefall Adventures would not comment on the accident.
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