Man hospitalized after skydiving accident

Apr 14, 2009 1 min read

MELBOURNE (AP) – A Cocoa Beach man is recovering at a Melbourne hospital after he slammed into the ground during a skydiving accident.

Police say 25-year-old Tyler Farnham went into a spiral spin shortly after jumping about 13,000 feet Saturday afternoon in Sebastian.

He landed in a field east of a hangar at Sebastian Municipal Airport.

Farnham remains in serious but stable condition at Holmes Regional Medical Center.