Overview
- C5 surveillance video captured a parachutist becoming entangled on a traffic-light structure at Balderas and Juárez in the Centro Histórico during the early hours of December 9.
- Police, firefighters and transit personnel responded, and bystanders attempted to free the man before authorities secured the scene.
- The individual, identified by authorities as a 36-year-old U.S. citizen, was presented to a civic judge and released after officials found no injuries or damage.
- The man told police he had jumped from an ultralight aircraft, but AFAC and SENEAM said they neither authorized such a flight nor detected any aircraft in the area.
- Authorities said the parachute equipment was secured and removed, and some media reported the parachutist’s name as Miles Pack, which has not been officially confirmed.