On December 4, 2019, the Australian pilot Kelman Riches crashed to death. This is the first death in the history of mankind on a jetpack / hoverboard.
BSBD.
The pilot fell from a height of 6-9 meters at the festival in Puerto Rico in an amusement park. There are no details yet, there are only news items in Spanish .
Jetpacks are high-risk technology. Back in 1961, the engineer who created the first working prototype, Wendell Moore , who wanted to become the first pilot in the world, had to break his leg and to fly (and gain worldwide fame) in the training tests (Harold Graham). The security issue has not been resolved in the 100 years of the existence of jetpack technology (we discussed this on Habré ), so beginner projects try to fly "on the ropes" or over the water.
All the projects that are now falling, but got off with light frights and bruises.
more photos from the incident 
Jetpack international
The American Apollo project delivers energy gum from skyscrapers.
Flopped on the asphalt in 2016 , broke his jaw and a couple of ribs.
Gravity
The project of the Englishman Richard Browning. The pilot bathed several times.
Jet man
The Swiss Yves Rossi, trying to fly over Gibraltar, got lost in the cloud and decided to make an emergency landing by parachute. He says that then a year did not want to fly.
Zapata
In his interviews, Frankie Zapata said several times that he was falling into the water, and when he tried to fly over the English Channel, he also missed the refueling boat and swam.
Output
Sooner or later this was to happen. I hope this does not end the entire industry and journalists do not bane existing projects. This is a lesson for all pilots to be careful and think about their health and life, to take all possible and impossible precautions.