TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) – The BASE jumper who died after leaping off Perrine Bridge over the Snake River Canyon possibly got his hand tangled in the device used to release the parachute, his widow said.

Yegor Drozdov of Revere, Mass., died Tuesday when his chute failed to deploy after jumping from the 486-foot-high bridge in southern Idaho, a popular spot for BASE jumpers, who parachute from high, fixed objects. BASE is an acronym for building, antenna, span, earth.

In an interview with The Times-News, Katerina Drozdov said Twin Falls County sheriff’s deputies gave her details of her husband’s death.

“His hand got tangled in the bridle of the pilot chute,” she said deputies told her. “When they found him it was still tangled around his hand. They said it was very windy and must have got tangled while he was falling because it’s about five seconds that you have to open.”

The bridle is a small chute that BASE jumpers throw outward early in the fall that is supposed to deploy the main chute.

Winds at the bridge during Drozdov’s jump were 24 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.

“He was very adventurous,” Katerina Drozdov told the newspaper. “He liked the extreme stuff.”

The two had been married five years and have no children, she said.

More than 5,000 jumps are made annually from the Perrine Bridge, the world’s most-frequented BASE jumping location.

“I guess he decided to stop on the way back,” she said. “He didn’t tell anyone that he was going there.”

She said her husband was a naturalized citizen who moved to the U.S. 15 years ago with his family from Moscow, Russia, and eventually settled in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Yegor Drozdov owned Alliance Motor Group, a car dealership with branches in Revere and Longmont, Colo.

She said her husband had jumped at the bridge before, but she was unaware of his plans to revisit the bridge earlier this week after the two stayed with friends in Sacramento, Calif. She flew back while her husband planned to drive to Colorado.

His funeral is planned for Monday in Salem, Mass.