An US Air Force service member has died after falling from the rafters of a stadium during a pregame demonstration at a University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) football game. The airman fell while rappelling from the roof of the Alamodome ahead of Saturday's match between UTSA and the US Naval Academy, in front of thousands of spectators.
\n\nThe service member, assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, sustained fatal injuries during the demonstration, which was part of the university's "Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans" game.
\n\nVideos circulating on social media appeared to show the airman losing control and sliding down a rope during a fast-rope demonstration involving four military personnel.
\n\nThe airman received medical treatment on the field for about 10 minutes before being taken to a local hospital, where he died.
\n\nWitnesses described a stunned silence in the stadium following the fall. "Everyone was quiet, the band stopped performing. Everybody was dead silent," Adrian Corey, who witnessed the incident, told KSAT.
\n\nUTSA staff members formed a semicircle around the injured airman before he was carried away on a stretcher, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
\n\nThe incident delayed the football game by about 10 minutes.
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