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A Brooklyn man is dead after he landed in a New Jersey backyard in a skydiving accident. The incident happened Sunday afternoon in Washington Township, in Gloucester County. The 49-year-old victim, Arkady Shenker, was wearing a wing suit allows a skydiver to move forward while descending and is said to have been an experienced diver with more than 350 jumps. He had just jumped with 15 others from a plane operated by a Monroe company called Freefall Adventures. The cause of the fatal accident has not yet been determined, and it is unclear if the specialized suit opened properly.