The San Joaquin County skydiving school has had 22 recorded deaths since it opened in 1981, nine of which occurred since 2016, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

This time, it was Sabrina Call, a 57-year-old woman who has been described as a “very experienced” skydiver. Her parachute became “heavily tangled,” and she dropped to her death, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said.

Bill Dause, the owner of Skydive Lodi and a self-described skydiving legend, told KCRA, “We’re sad, but it’s just like a car wreck or anything else. You have to go on.”

Dause has been going on for years following fatalities at his facilities.

In March, he was ordered to pay $40 million in connection to a 2016 double fatality at his center.

In that case, Tyler Turner, a recent high school graduate, went skydiving for the first time to celebrate his friend’s birthday. Turner, 18, jumped in tandem with an instructor. The parachute failed to open, and the two hit the ground. Deputies found their mangled bodies in a vineyard south of the center’s landing zone.

The Sacramento Bee later reported that the instructor did not have a proper license.

Turner’s mother Francine Salazar told the Merced Sun-Star that before her son got on the plane, “he knelt down and prayed, made his peace with God, and then turned around and gave me a great-big, huge hug.”

“He said, “I love you, Mom,’ and then, he got on the plane,” she said.

Salazar has also alleged an instructor told the jumpers that they would not need to finish watching the safety video shown beforehand.

Dause told the Sun-Star that Salazar was “grasping for reasons, and we’re just as upset about it as everybody is.”

In 2019, a 28-year-old woman jumped to her death after a gust of wind sent her toward traffic on state Route 99. She slammed into a big rig. Her body was found on the shoulder of the highway.

Squaw Valley professional skier Timothy Dutton, 27, was also killed during a jump in 2014. The list of fatalities is unusually long at Skydive Lodi.

According to statistics by the United States Parachute Association, there were a total of 13 skydiving-related fatalities out of approximately 3.3 million jumps in 2018.

There are more than 200 USPA Group Member skydiving centers (or “drop zones”) located within convenient driving distance of most major U.S. cities.

As with most sports, there are potential risks involved, and it is standard to address safety concerns. Upon arrival at a skydiving school, all jumpers must fill out a registration form and sign a liability release.

Calls to Skydive Lodi for comment were not immediately returned.