A skydiver who plummeted to her death at 15,500ft split from her boyfriend just hours before she died, an inquest into her death heard today.

Jade Damarell, 32, died after crashing onto farmland in the village of Shotton Colliery, Co Durham, on April 27. The marketing manager, who was born in Hong Kong and lived in Caerphilly, Wales, was an experienced skydiver who had accomplished more than 400 jumps.

There was 'no reason to suspect' her equipment was not working on the day she died. A report by British SkyDiving said that she had successfully carried out six skydives on the day before the tragedy.

But she 'made no attempt' to activate her parachute or the back up device on the day that she died. The back up system, known as Automatic Activation Device (AAD), would have opened wh

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