A 60‑year‑old skydiver lost his life after his parachute failed to open fully, officials said.
When a call came in right after 3 p.m. on Nov. 16, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office found a man face‑down, unresponsive, in a field of the county.
The victim, later identified as Takashi Koyama, was given CPR by first responders, but he was pronounced dead before the authorities could arrive.
A witness watching from a nearby spot saw Koyama falling in a spin from only a few hundred feet, and it looked as if his parachute had not deployed properly.
“There was something green on the ground,” a bystander named Danielle told KCNC.
“And I thought it looked like a parachute, and there were parachutes still coming down. I see skydivers every day, tons of them.”
Koyama had been licensed to perform solo jumps, the sheriff’s office added.
The incident happened in a field near the Mile‑High Skydiving Center, which confirmed that an accident had taken place that day.
Koyama’s son, Shizuka Koyama, is a nursing student who shared his father’s memory online. In a GoFundMe post he wrote that his dad was “a remarkable man who cherished both Japan and America, the lands he called home and loved deeply.”
He also revealed that his mother had died years earlier, leaving him “the only one left to handle everything.”
The fundraiser to cover Koyama’s cremation and burial in both Japan and the U.S. has raised more than $1,300 toward a $7,000 goal.
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