"Decorated ‘Golden Knight’ Army parachutist dies in air show dive"

[The Bread Guy]

R.I.P. SFC Corey Hood 

At the Chicago Air & Water Show over the weekend, 13 parachutists held hands and jumped, creating a flying circle and then fanning out — red smoke trailing from their backpacks to look like a “bomb burst.”

Then U.S. Army skydiver Sgt. First Class Corey Hood, a 32-year-old “American hero,” collided with another jumper.

Authorities said Hood, who had jumped from aircraft hundreds of times before, hit a fellow skydiver mid-air Saturday morning and was knocked unconscious and smashed into a high-rise apartment on his way down to the ground. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition — and he died Sunday ....

More here, and from Ft. Bragg's local paper here:

A member of Fort Bragg's Golden Knights died Sunday after colliding with another jumper and hitting a building during an air show in Chicago on Saturday morning.

Sgt. 1st Class Corey Hood, 32, was participating in a mass formation with 11 other jumpers at the Chicago Air & Water Show about 11 a.m. Saturday, according to Donna Dixon, a Golden Knights spokeswoman. Another jumper was shooting video, she said.

"It's a normal part of our daily show," Dixon said.

The 12 jumpers held hands in a circle then broke off in separate directions. Since the jumpers are trailing red smoke, the maneuver looks like a bomb exploding.

Hood and a member of the Navy Leap Frogs parachute team collided after the jumpers separated but while they were still free-falling, Dixon said.

"They were just breaking away from the mass formation," she said.

Dixon said Hood was knocked unconscious. The Navy jumper broke his leg.

The two jumpers were going about 120 mph and were about 12,000 feet above the ground when the collision happened, Dixon said ....