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(-23) Mr. Bonadies was the president of Connecticut parachutists, inc. and also experienced instructor (jump master with 5000 jumps) had a fatal incident. Mr. Bonadies and Mr. Jim olko, both jump masters, and student miss cythia hyland departed the airplane at 12000'. Miss hyland was on her 5th solo jump and was under the supervision of the jump masters. Her primary instructor was Mr. Bonadies. All three departed the plane at the same time and the instructors physically held on to her. She lost control a couple of times and the instructors stabilized her. At about 5000' to 3000' Mr. Olko started to lose control and he released miss hyland and deployed his main parachute. Mr. Bonadies remained with miss hyland because she was still unstable. At approximately 700' miss hyland's main and reserve parachute deployed. Mr. Bonadies never deployed and he impacted the ground. Mr. Bonadies reserve parachute was a precision aerodynamics was inspected at the scene where there were no defects found, and the reserve was inspected and repacked within the previous 120 days.