Video of a skydiver performing a stunt is falsely shared with the claim that she accidentally fell to her death
A video featuring two clips of a woman hanging mid-air from a rope, swinging, and then seemingly falling is going viral on social media. The clip is being shared with a warning and a claim that the stunt performer died after falling from the rope. A picture-in-picture insert in the video features another woman cautioning viewers against attempting such risky stunts. We will fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: The stunt performer featured in the viral video accidentally lost her life while performing the act.
Fact: The woman in the video is Luiza Ferrari, a Italian-Brazilian skydiver. In the full-length versions of the clips in the viral video, she can be seen deploying her parachute after releasing herself from the rope. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To verify the claim, we conducted a reverse image search using keyframes from the viral video. This led us to the Instagram and TikTok pages of Luiza Ferrari, a skydiver who frequently shares footage of aerial stunts. She is the person featured in the viral video. During this search, we found two full-length videos that match the clips in the viral video (here and here).
In the first video available on Instagram (here, here, and here), Luiza is seen unhooking herself from the rope mid-air and smoothly opening a parachute.
The second video, shot from a different angle but capturing the same stunt, was uploaded by Luiza on 21 April 2025 on Instagram and TikTok. Here, too, we can see that she deploys her parachute after unhooking from the rope. She also uploaded another video of the same stunt filmed from a different angle on her TikTok.
This confirms that the fall was part of a planned stunt and not an accident. Luiza Ferrari has posted several such high-risk stunts on her social media platforms (here, here, and here), including performances atop hot air balloons. Her most recent Instagram post, dated 20 June 2025, also shows her performing a similar stunt, diving into the air after releasing herself from a hanging rope
To sum up, the viral video does not show a skydiver accidentally falling to her death. It features skydiver Luiza Ferrari performing an aerial stunt.