Skydive Elsinore collision: Levi Pimentel and Georgia Jean identified

The women were Levi Pimentel, 29, of Aurora, Illinois, and Georgia Jean, 56, of Box Elder, South Dakota. Both died on November 6, 2026, at Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar after being injured in a dirt field in Lake Elsinore, California. The Riverside County coroner notices confirm that their families have been notified.⁠30⁠31

On November 8, HeyDay News reported that two licensed, experienced visitors had died after colliding during their approach to land at Skydive Elsinore. We did not identify them because their names had not then been checked against coroner records. That verification is now complete: the notices, posted November 7, independently establish their identities and record November 6 as both the injury and death date.⁠30⁠31

The gathering also had a clearer sporting purpose than our earlier report established. Participant Chazi Rutz told the Los Angeles Times that the group was training toward a California women's upright-formation record—a proposed 19-way formation, against an existing benchmark she described as 12-way. Those are the target and benchmark given by a participant, not confirmation that a record was completed or certified.⁠8

In an upright formation, skydivers appear to be sitting in the air. The objective was a coordinated formation involving 19 women. Pimentel and Jean had traveled to California for the organized event; the operator described both as licensed and experienced. They were not first-time tandem customers.⁠8⁠5

But the training objective and the fatal collision belong to different stages of the jump. Skydive Elsinore said the free fall and parachute openings were normal. Its account places the collision afterward, as the women prepared to land, about 150 feet above the ground. The collision entangled their parachutes, the company said, and both suffered critical injuries when they reached the ground.⁠5

Rutz likewise described the women coming too close together after deployment, with their open parachutes becoming entangled. Her account supports the broad sequence described by the operator. It does not establish what maneuver either woman made, what either could see, who had right of way or why their paths converged. Nothing established so far shows that the formation training itself caused the accident.⁠8

That distinction matters. “Training for a record” explains why the women were there. It is not an explanation of how they collided. Treating the ambition as the cause would substitute the most striking detail of the gathering for the missing evidence about the landing.

The height also remains an estimate. Our November 8 report flagged a conflicting account giving 15 meters rather than approximately 150 feet. The coroner notices contain no altitude measurement to resolve that difference. The 150-foot figure remains Skydive Elsinore's preliminary account, not a final measured finding.⁠5⁠30⁠31

Deputies responding to an air-emergency report in the 20000 block of Cereal Street found both women on the ground receiving medical aid, according to the sheriff's account reported by the Los Angeles Times. They were taken by ambulance to hospital in critical condition. The coroner records now identify that hospital as Inland Valley Medical Center and make clear that both deaths occurred there, not at the field.⁠8⁠6⁠30⁠31

The recorded injury time is two minutes before the 11:47 a.m. deputy dispatch time we previously reported. Those are different events, not competing timestamps for the same action. Likewise, the differences between the listed injury and death times—41 minutes for Jean and 44 for Pimentel—are not ambulance journey times or independent measurements of survival.⁠30⁠31

Both notices name the Riverside County Sheriff's Office–Lake Elsinore as the investigating agency and carry the same investigation number, linking the deaths to one incident. Their official dates resolve our earlier uncertainty over whether November 6, 2026, was supported by an incident record rather than only by news publication dates.⁠30⁠31

Skydive Elsinore said it found no evidence of equipment malfunction. That is the operator's preliminary assessment, not an investigative clearance of every component. A normal parachute opening does not rule out a later entanglement, and neither normal deployment nor the women's experience explains why they came together on approach.⁠5

There is an announced investigative step: the sheriff's office said the Federal Aviation Administration had been notified and would collect the parachutes and investigate, according to ABC7 Chicago. Fox News subsequently described an FAA investigation as underway. Those accounts establish reported federal involvement, but they do not confirm that the parachutes have been collected or examined.⁠6⁠3

The word “Final” appears in the status field of both coroner notices. It describes those death notices, not the completion of the collision investigation. Neither document supplies a cause, an equipment determination or a finding of responsibility.⁠30⁠31

No verified closure, suspension or reopening announcement has been established in this reporting. Nor has a completed record-attempt outcome been verified. The next consequential development is not another description of the group's ambition: it is evidence from the parachutes and flight sequence that can explain how two experienced women reached the final approach safely deployed, then became entangled before landing.