The woman who died during a parachute jump Sunday in the Central Valley has been identified as an experienced skydiver with more than 2,500 jumps under her belt.

Nina Mason, 62, of Dillon, Colo. was making a jump with her husband when her main chute failed to deploy correctly, Bill Dause, owner of Skydive Lodi-the Parachute Center in Acampo, told NBC affiliate KCRA.

"What we've decided was she had a malfunction of her main parachute, waited a long time before she got rid of that — we call it a cutaway — and activated her reserve parachute," Dause explained to reporters.

"But after she cut away, she rolled over to get stable and then activated her reserve parachute, and by this time it was too low to open."

Mason's body was found in an alfalfa field near the airport runway used by the Lodi Parachute Center.

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KCRA reported the FAA said it will investigate the incident, but according to agency spokesman Ian Gregor, FAA skydiving accident investigations are typically limited to determining whether the parachute was properly packed.

Gregor said Mason, who was formerly from the area and well-known at the center, was using her own equipment. The accident occurred on her fourth jump of the day.

Mason's death is the skydiving operation's sixth death since 2016 and 16th since the late 1990s.

The FBI searched the center earlier this year, but did not disclose what was being investigated.

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