A father of six has died in a horrific skydiving accident and his wife was devastated by fears the family could lose their home too.
Roger Goltz, a computer technician from Jervis Bay on the New South Wales south coast, died at the weekend, leaving behind his wife Kelly and six children aged between 14 and 25.
Mr Goltz is an experienced skydiver and had completed about 80 jumps before Saturday’s accident.
While his parachute opened perfectly, Mr Goltz is known to have turned too low and too fast due to the wind, putting him at the wrong angle for landing.
Mr Goltz suffered a catastrophic brain injury upon impact and was placed on a ventilator at the scene before being transported to hospital and pronounced dead.
“Roger and my 18-year-old son Kai had gone skydiving as they always do. Kai saw his dad go down but didn’t realise it was him until he saw his shoe,” Ms Goltz told Daily Mail Australia.
Mrs. Goltz, whose four of her six children live at home, is now worried she may not be able to keep her home since the skydiving was not covered by her life insurance.
TO GoFundMe It was created to help support his family, who he says have been left with an “irreplaceable void in our hearts.”
Roger Goltz, who lives in Jervis Bay on the New South Wales south coast, died at the weekend, leaving behind his wife and six children.
Mr Goltz is an experienced skydiver and had completed about 80 jumps, many of them with his teenage son, before Saturday’s accident.
“Roger was always looking for the next adventure and he loved his children, I guess he was one of them,” Ms. Goltz said.
‘The children are devastated and wonder if he was hurt or scared and what that means for the two girls and who will walk them down the aisle.
‘They just lost their best friend.
“All you had to do was imagine it and he would make it happen.”
Ms Goltz said a fellow skydiver with 40 years’ experience told her he had seen similar flips go wrong in the air, but never one that cost a life.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help support his family, who say they have been left with an “irreplaceable void in our hearts.”
He was extremely close to his six children.
Mr. Goltz (far right) had gone on several skydives with his teenage son Kai.
He is now waiting for the coroner’s report to try to understand what went wrong.
The family is supported by Mr. and Mrs. Goltz’s parents.
“Roger loved life and his family,” Ms. Goltz said.
A memorial service for Mr. Goltz will be held next Thursday.
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