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A skydiver from Boston killed in a California accident had tried to set a parachuting record in a charity jump hours before his death.
Forty-year-old Stephen Harrington of Boston landed Wednesday in a Murrietta driveway.
Authorities say he might have struck the tail of the plane and it was unclear whether his parachute deployed. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Eli Bolotin of the charity Raise the Sky says Harrington was among 68 people who earlier in the day jumped in formation from Lake Elsinore for a $5,000 fundraising event.
Bolotin says they were setting a U.S. record for jumps using wing suits -- skydiving suits with winglike fabric panels.
The jump was successful but Bolotin says it had not yet been formally certified as a record.
