A 21-year-old woman was hurled off a Brazilian bridge in a bungee stunt gone horribly wrong after workers allegedly failed to attach her safety rope before launching her into the ravine.
The doomed jump took place at Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, São Paulo, where Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas was sent over the edge without the line that was supposed to save her.
Multiple videos show workers carrying the helmeted, harnessed young woman toward the drop point as if the stunt were routine.
What appeared to be missing, investigators said, was the one thing that mattered: any actual connection between her body and the safety system.
Local reports said she chose an “airplane style” launch, a stunt position that had instructors hoist her up while her arms extended outward.
The video showed workers bringing her to the edge and sending her over.
Seconds later, bystanders realized something had gone catastrophically wrong.
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“The rope, people, the rope,” people could be heard shouting in the background after she vanished from the bridge.
Just before the plunge, her Instagram had filled with ominous snapshots from the outing.
“Who was the crazy person who let me come jump off a bridge?” she posted.
One image captured a skeleton road sign bearing the warning, “Danger. Risk of death.”
The fall did not kill her instantly, according to the nurse who reached her afterward.
The unnamed nurse described a desperate descent through mud, with rescuers relying on a single rope to reach the ravine.
The woman who was thrown off a 130-foot bridge without a cord in Brazil was still alive when an off-duty nurse got to her on the ground.
"I even talked to her… I told her, 'Nobody dies on my shift.' Even though I wasn’t on my shift…" said nurse Rayza Dias.
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“I scraped my whole hand because there’s a steep slope down there and only one rope for us to climb down,” she told “Domingo Espetacular” on Sunday in Portuguese. “It was all covered in mud. I kept going down, down, we walked all the way.”
When she reached the young woman, the nurse said the injuries were already grave.
“I saw that she was breathing heavily, I looked at her pupils, which were unfortunately dilated, both of them, and I saw a pulse. It was very weak, but she still had a pulse,” she said.
Rodrigues de Freitas was ultimately declared dead at the scene before officials recovered her body for examination at the Legal Institute.
After the horror on the bridge, two men allegedly ran from the scene, Brazilian military police said.
Authorities eventually made six arrests, with a helicopter helping locate two people in a wooded area.
G1 reported that three of the workers taken into custody at the site now face homicide-with-implied-malice charges.
O Globo reported that police linked the deadly plunge to equipment that had not been properly secured.
Delegate Andrea Dantas Levy said the operator should not have been running the bridge activity in the first place.
“They ended up organizing this event, and, this fatality happened today, in my perception, due to a failure to verify and supervise the placement of the rope on the victim’s jump,” Levy said.
Defense lawyers countered to G1 that the crew had years of experience and no prior fatal incident.
The three workers remanded in custody were locally identified as Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, and Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves, 27.
The workers reportedly had no clear answer for how the last safety step was missed.
Their explanation, according to the report, was a claimed “blackout” around the setup and no memory of who was supposed to attach the rope.
Luis Felipe, who reportedly earned £26.50 per jump, told police the team handled equipment checks “jointly” rather than under fixed individual roles.
Asked who had final responsibility for Maria Eduarda’s safety check, he said, according to police, “I can’t remember.”
Maicon Fernandes Cintra reportedly offered the same response.
Their lawyer, Rafael Gomes dos Santos, said the men were in shock.
“They are in a state of shock. They cannot explain what happened because they have been doing this for years,” he said. “Nothing like this has ever happened.”
Another fatal thrill-seeking accident unfolded near Moab, Utah, where record-setting daredevil Andy Lewis died on a tandem BASE jump.
Something failed during the Sunday jump in Mineral Bottom, killing Lewis and a second man, according to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office.
Lewis was known for setting a highline record 480 feet above Las Vegas in October 2013.
Authorities had not publicly named the other victim, described only as a man about 50.
“The Grand County Sheriff’s Office extends its deepest sympathies to the families, friends, and all those affected by this tragic incident,” the sheriff’s office said.
Not long before the fatal jump, Lewis’ Instagram showed him launching into a flip from a desert cliff outside Moab.
“Thanks for keeping me in frame for my test jump <3,” Lewis posted. “…Stoked for the rest of the season. What a journey it’s been — and it’s only just begun.”
The deadliest disaster came in Missouri, where 11 skydivers and a pilot were killed in a crash officials called a “mass casualty” event.
The aircraft had barely left Butler Memorial Airport, about 65 miles south of Kansas City, before it crashed Sunday.
Some families watched the disaster unfold, according to Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson.
Federal Aviation Administration officials and a National Transportation Safety Board team responded to the scene.
Acting airport manager Dennis Jacobs, who also leads the Bates County Emergency Management Agency, said the Skydive Kansas City aircraft appeared to lose power.
“It had just taken off and made a left turn” before the crash, Jacobs said. “In my opinion, I think it was losing power, and he was trying to make it over to the highway and land, and he stalled and went down nose first and caught fire.”
