Army jump school training resumes one day after fatal accident

<p>Army Airborne school parachute training at Fort Benning resumed on Wednesday, one day after being suspended following the first fatal accident in 15 years.</p><p>The soldier, identified as Pfc. Megan E. Adelman, 19, of Alliance, Ohio, died Tuesday at the Fryar Drop Zone in Russell County, Ala.</p><p>Adelman's primary parachute, designed to deploy at 1,200 feet, failed to open and for some reason she did not open her backup chute, said Col. James Yarborough, deputy post commander. He said the reasons for the failure were being investigated.</p><p>Fort Benning spokesman Rich McDowell said that since the last training accident, an estimated 200,000 Airborne students from various branches of military service have performed more than 1 million jumps without any fatal accidents. About 17,000 students are expected to go through the Airborne school this fiscal year, McDowell said.</p><p>He said the student who died was enrolled in a three-week course on basic military parachuting. This week, the class of 310 was to complete five jumps before graduating Friday, McDowell said.</p><p>Two soldiers died on training jumps within 15 days in 1990.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x286668c)</p>