Bungee jumper’s mid-air heart attack after jumping with no cord

A young woman has reportedly died from a mid-air heart attack after following the wrong instructions while bungee jumping.

A bungee jumper who plummeted about 50m to her death is believed to have died of a heart attack mid-air after realising she wasn’t attached to the bungee cord.

Colombian lawyer Yecenia Morales Gómez, 25, tragically died when she followed the wrong signal to jump before she even hit the ground.

Now a medical report suggests the woman’s cause of death was not the fall.

According to the report seen by Colombian news outlet Noticias Caracol, the young woman suffered a heart attack during her fall and was dead before she hit the ground.

The tragedy happened during Ms Gomez’s first bungee jump with her boyfriend in the province of Antioquia, Colombia.

Yecenia Morales, 25, died of cardiac arrest after jumping when she allegedly misunderstood the instructions intended for her boyfriend and jumped without equipment. Picture: Newsflash/australscope

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According to footage taken by onlookers, the bungee instructor yelled to Ms Gomez’s boyfriend to “jump now” but Ms Gomez appears to have thought the instruction was for her, and jumped without a cord.

Her boyfriend immediately rushed to her side and tried to perform CPR but she was already dead.

A spokesperson for firefighters from Amagá who arrived at the scene said: “Sadly the woman did not have any vital signs and we later recovered the body.

It was the young woman’s first bungee jump. Picture: Newsflash/australscope

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“With the help of professionals who were nearby, we performed first aid to her partner.’’

Gustavo Guzmán, the mayor of the municipality of Fredonia, Antioquia explained to El Tiempo that Ms Gomez “got confused”.

“The signal was for the boyfriend to jump because he was already attached to the security equipment,” Mr Guzman said.

“They had only put the harness on her so she got confused and rushed.’’

The woman was buried after a ceremony at Simón Bolívar neighbourhood in Medellín, where she lived with her family.

Loved ones have paid tribute to the young lawyer. Picture: Newsflash/australscope

Her devastated brother Andrés Morales described her as a happy woman who loved to read and dance and had an entrepreneurial spirit.

“My sister is a girl with all the best values​​, happy, spontaneous, with virtues that made her love her friends, and helped the people in need.”

El Tiempo reports that according to the mayor of Fredonia, there are two companies offering bungee jumping in the area, none of which have permission to do so.

An investigation into the woman’s death is underway.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission