The Nation - News from April 6, 1988

An experienced parachutist filmed his own two-mile death plunge after he fell or jumped from an airplane with a video camera mounted on his helmet, apparently without realizing he did not have a parachute, investigators in Louisburg, N.C., said. Officials declared the death Saturday of Ivan Lester McGuire, 35, of Durham, to be an accident. Capt. Ralph Brown of the Franklin County sheriff’s department said there was no foul play and no indication that suicide was involved, although “a man who has jumped 800 times ought to remember his parachute.”