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Medical condition may have caused skydiving deaths

NEWS 12 WESTCHESTER: Family, friends mourned the death

NEWS 12 WESTCHESTER: Family, friends mourned the death of David Winoker, 49, of Chappaqua, who died in a skydiving accident Friday. (June 17, 2012) (June 17, 2012 9:14 PM)

Police are investigating whether an experienced parachute instructor may have had a medical condition that caused a skydiving accident Friday in Ulster County -- killing him and a Chappaqua real estate mogul.

David Winoker, 49, and 25-year-old parachute instructor Alexander Chulsky, of Brooklyn, were killed when the two men -- who were tethered together -- plummeted to the ground near a farm...

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