Army paratrooper from NY killed during helicopter jump training

A 21-year-old US Army paratrooper from New York State died while jumping from a helicopter during a training exercise, officials said Wednesday.

Spc. Abigail Jenks, of Gansevoort, was doing a static-line jump from a UH-60 Blackhawk chopper at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Monday, when she was fatally injured, military officials said. “She was a positive, happy person. She’s always seeing the good side of things,” her mother, Mary Jenks, told CBS6. “She had an impact on so many people in her life.”