A skydiving instructor was found dead in a wooded area in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday after he became separated at the plane from his student, who was rescued alive from a nearby tree, police said.

The student was found “lodged in a tree with an open parachute” in the woods off the Ashland City Highway, northwest of downtown Nashville, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement .

The student “was able to walk away with only minimal, non-life-threatening injuries after being stranded for several hours,” the Nashville Fire Department, which rescued the student, said in a statement.

The 35-year-old instructor was “presumed to have fallen from the sky without a parachute” and was found dead off the same highway, police said.

Authorities did not provide any fur

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