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Thoughts with the family as they seek answers over death
Express and Echo
|June 19, 2025
THE details of the skydive tragedy in East Devon are pretty horrific, and understandably the family of the woman involved now wants answers.
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Mum-of-four Belinda Taylor, 48, from Totnes, and instructor Adam Harrison, 30, from Bournemouth, did a tandem jump from a plane over Dunkeswell Aerodrome, near Honiton, on Friday afternoon.
Belinda's partner, Scott Armstrong, had bought the tandem jump as a thank you present for his girlfriend and saw the awful events unfold before finding the bodies.
He said: "I was using binoculars and saw them all jump and noticed that one chute hadn't opened. I was freaking out. They disappeared from view. I jumped in my car with my lad and raced across the fields.
"I found Belinda and the instructor lying there, still together, both clearly dead. It was a horrific sight.
"I miss her so much. I'm so lost without her. She meant the world to all of us and we'll never forget her."
This story is from the June 19, 2025 edition of Express and Echo.
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