A 38-year-old skydiver has died after an accident in the Lanaudiere town of St. Esprit Monday afternoon.

The man, an experienced skydiver from southern Ontario who had jumped at the St. Esprit airfield before, jumped at 2 p.m. as part of a group of eight.

He was not able to deploy his main parachute as he fell from a height of 14,000 feet, said Benoit Richard of the Surete du Quebec.

"For seven of them everything was okay, for the last one the chute didn't open," said Richard.

While he was able to open a reserve chute several hundred feet above ground, it wasn't enough to soften his landing according to Parachute Montreal co-owner Donald Poulin.

"At about 2,000 feet, I saw someone that was pretty low... and I realized he was in trouble," said Poulin.

"The victim did use his back up chute, but by the time he opened it, it was too late. He pulled it when he was only a few hundred feet from the ground."

The man died on impact.

This was the first troubling incident the skydiving company has experienced since it opened in June 2008.