Story By: Sibel Abdiu, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

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This is the moment a parachutist becomes caught in a ‘dust devil’ tornado and is sent fatally crashing to the ground at high speed.

The incident happened as father-of-two Ali Haydar Paksoy, 41, was training with a parachutist club on the Cokelez mountain of Cal district, in Turkey’s Denizli province.

In the video, Paksoy, an English teacher, can be seen jumping off a mountainside and being taken to a reported height of 20 metres.

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He then becomes caught in swirling winds which local media report was a dust devil and his parachute partially closes.

He manages to move out of the dust devil and reopen the parachute but he soon becomes caught in the winds again and he is sent falling towards the ground at high speed after the left side of his parachute closes.

Paksoy cannot stop himself crashing into the mountainside and local media report an ambulance was called but paramedics could only confirm that he had died at the scene.

The ambulance then took Paksoy’s body to the Pamukkale University Forensic Medicine Morgue. 

Local media report the police have launched an investigation into the incident which is ongoing.

Paksoy leaves behind a wife and two children.

Dust devils are strong, well-formed whirlwinds which form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather.