TikTok influencer dies following sky diving accident in Toronto
06 September 2022, 08:08 pm | Updated: 21 November 2024, 10:40 pm
A Canadian TikTok influencer died last week following a sky diving accident in Toronto, a friend who attended her funeral told CNN.
Tanya Pardazi, 21, who went by the handle philosatea on TikTok, had more than 95,000 followers and two million likes on the app.
Skydive Toronto said a sky diving student died August 27 after they "succumbed to fatal injuries obtained from an emergency situation." The company did not identify the student, but Melody Ozgoli, a friend of Pardazi's for about a decade, told CNN by phone Saturday Pardazi was the student who died.
Pardazi had recently begun taking classes with the sky diving company, noting it in her last TikTok post, made August 22.
"The skydiver released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate," the company said in a release.
"The jumper was a welcomed recent addition to the sky diving community and will be missed amongst the student's new friends and fellow jumpers of Skydive Toronto Inc," the statement said. "The team at Skydive Toronto Inc has been profoundly affected by this accident as they have refined their student training program for over 50 years."
