Louisburg, North Carolina, April 5, 1988
tired parachutist’s fatigue and his preoccupation with videotaping other jumpers could have led him to leap from a plane without a chute, plummeting 10,500 feet to his death, an acquaintance says.
The death Saturday of Ivan Lester McGuire was accidental, although ″a man who has jumped 800 times ought to remember his parachute,″ Franklin County Sheriff’s Capt. Ralph Brown said Tuesday.
There are no indications of foul play or suicide, and blood tests indicating whether drugs or alcohol were present in his system should be available next week, Brown said.
