London, Sep 11 (PTI) A 49-year-old woman parachutist died after her chute failed to open and she crash-landed "spinning like a top" in County Durham, UK police said today. Witnesses described seeing the woman rapidly spiralling down to earth entangled in the canopy cords of her parachute before landing in a nearby Shotton Colliery housing estate. The woman had jumped before but not in the UK, Durham Police said. The dead woman was one of a group of parachutists who had taken off from the nearby airfield, the BBC reported. Ian Rosenvinger, from the Skydive Academy at Peterlee parachute centre said that the canopy on the womans parachute rotated round and round, leading to a heavy landing.

Source: India Today September 11, 2016 11:26 UTC