A person is dead after a skydiving incident at Tauranga Airport.
Emergency services were called to the airport on Kittyhawk Way at 10.33am today after reports a person had crashed in a parachute.
Initial reports from St John ambulance said the person was taken to Tauranga Hospital in a critical condition.
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