A skydiver has died and another is in a serious condition in hospital after they collided on a jump.
The men are believed to have crashed into each other 50ft above the ground causing their parachutes to collapse.
Paramedics battled to save one of the men, a 53-year-old from London, but he was declared dead at the scene of the accident on Saturday afternoon at the Sibson airfield, near Peterborough.
The second man, reported to be a 28-year-old from France, was flown by the Magpas Helimedix charity air ambulance to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, with spine and leg injuries.
It believed the men had jumped separately and were not skydiving in tandem. Neither has been named.
Dr Nick Foster of Magpas said: 'We did everything we could to save the man who died but sadly couldn't.
'The man who survived was very lucky. It is all about the way you fall.'
Sibson Airfield is one of two bases for UK Parachuting, which offers skydiving courses and charity jumps and was one of the first civilian drop zones in the country. The company was referring all inquiries to the British Parachute Association, the sport's governing body, which was unavailable for comment.
Cambridgeshire Police said the BPA would be investigating the accident. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch confirmed it would not be investigating since no aircraft were directly involved. Sibson Airfield has been home to a parachute centre since 1971 and is a centre for general aviation. Last September a pilot was killed when his light aircraft hit power lines near the airfield, which is close to the A1.
