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Stephanie Gardiner

Plane step a 'bad snag risk' in skydive double tragedy

A lengthy trial over the skydiving deaths of an instructor and his tandem passenger has wrapped up. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

A series of small "sliding doors" moments could have prevented the deaths of two skydivers, who fell after they became entangled on a plane mid-air during a catastrophic jump, a court has been told.

Instructor Stephen Hoare, 37, and his tandem passenger Alex Welling, 32, died while skydiving at Goulburn airport, in southern NSW, on June 27, 2021.

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