Washington (CNN) — A skydiving instructor fell to his death in Nashville this weekend after a tandem jump went wrong and he somehow became separated from the other skydiver and their parachute.

A tandem jump is when two skydivers, usually an instructor and a beginner, are harnessed together and share one parachute.

The student was found hanging about 50 feet up in a tree with the open chute, Metro Nashville Police Department said on X Saturday . He was hanging there for hours, before the Nashville Fire Department was able to free him from the harness and assist him down a ladder with a pulley system.

“The gentleman was parachuting… He was glad to get down” Romulus Rood, who witnessed the rescue, told CNN affiliate WZTV. “He said it was his first and last jump.”

The 35-year-old ins

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