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Rexburg residents and BYU-Idaho students mourned the death of an off-track student at a funeral service July 10, following a bizarre accident, which took his life July 7. Blaine Stegelmeier, 23, was killed while piloting a motorized parachute east of Sugar City.
“The ironic thing is that I always felt so safe with him,” Heidi Flint, who went jogging with Stegelmeier the morning of the accident, said. “The first time we went biking together, he reminded me to wear my helmet.”
Stegelmeier, a Madison High School graduate, spiraled to the ground in the engine-powered parachute near Moody while on his first solo flight. The fuel tank subsequently ignited, and Stegelmeier was killed on impact, Madison County Sheriff Roy Klingler said.
Mitchell Powered Parachutes Manager Sandy Mitchell said he could not comment specifically about the cause of Stegelmeier’s death — “all I can tell you is there was nothing wrong with the craft and nothing wrong with the weather.”
Stegelmeier majored in biology and had applied to at least two dental schools anticipating his graduation from BYU-I next year.
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