A 21-year-old woman died in Brazil after being thrown from a bridge for a rope jump without a safety cord. Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, who aspired to be a physical education teacher, was launched from the Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned bridge in the municipality of Limeira in São Paulo state, on Saturday. According to the Associated Press, the victim requested to be launched “airplane style,” with two instructors hoisting her above their shoulders as she spread her arms. Footage shared online shows two men in white helmets launching Freites into a 40-metre (130ft) abyss without attaching her to security equipment. While the instructors appeared to be wearing harnesses attached to a security rope, onlookers were seen screaming at them to attach a cord to the victim. Local media reported that Freites fell approximately 40 meters (131 feet) to her death and was buried on Sunday. Police in Brazil have arrested three men who worked for the company offering the rope jumps. According to CBS News, the men were arrested for “homicide with dolus eventualis,” a charge meaning they were aware of the risk of death but proceeded anyway. Officials stated the investigation could lead to murder charges. Delegate Andrea Dantas Levy told the local outlet G1 that the team involved was not regulated and lacked authorization to be at the site. Rope jumping is an extreme sport that uses low-stretch climbing ropes to create a horizontal, pendulum swing, which differs from the vertical, bouncing effect of bungee jumping. The Guardian noted that the sport’s inventor, American Dan Osman, died rope jumping in 1998 at the age of 35. In 2013, a man in Utah was also killed while attempting a rope swing through a sandstone arch.