Elliot Ball, Eve Watson and Jonathan Morris
BBC News, South West
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Belinda Taylor was a wonderful mother, said her sister, who took this photograph of her
A woman who died in a skydiving accident in Devon was a “caring, giving person” who “loved adventure”.
Belinda Taylor, 48, from Totnes, was one of two people who died in a tandem jump at Dunkeswell Aerodrome, near Honiton, on Friday, police confirmed.
Her partner Scott Armstrong said: “She was a lovely person, she was my best friend. She was an absolute nutcase who just loved adventures.”
Skydiving instructor Adam Harrison, 30, from Bournemouth, also died in the incident at the weekend.
Scott Armstrong
Belinda Taylor from Totnes, died while skydiving in Devon
A tandem jump is when an instructor is attached by a harness to a participant, with the instructor controlling the jump, the freefall and the parachute deployment.
Mother-of-four Ms Taylor, who worked as a massage therapist and volunteered at a food bank, had been in a relationship with Mr Armstrong for three years.
“If she had £10 in her purse and you needed £10, you got it. She would put her own needs out of the way,” said Mr Armstrong.
“Somebody had sent me the nicest message last night.
“They said they were on the plane with her and she was laughing and joking and really excited of going up to the last minute. And I needed to hear that.”
Mr Armstrong said his partner had an adventurous spirit and it was “anything for a laugh” and her death had left him “lost”.
“She was my only friend. I don’t even know where home is now,” he said.
“She was what I had down here, now I don’t have her here, I’m speechless. We lost our world… I just miss her like crazy.”
Scott Armstrong: “I miss her like crazy”
Ms Taylor’s son Elias Baaklini, 20, a business student from Acton, west London, said it was “just a tragedy that she went off to have f
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