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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the fatality of a parachuting trainer following he got detached from his student during a dive in Music City, TN.

Police report trainer the instructor "is presumed to have dropped from the air without a parachute" during the jump on the weekend.

The instructor, 35 years old, appeared to have separated from his student and a dual harness, which links the pair during a dive and includes the safety gear.

A law enforcement aircraft located the instructor's remains in a wooded area hours later. Local emergency crews used several ladders to access the 46-year old student who lived through the descent after being trapped on a tree branch for some time with the backup chute.

Police stated several additional jumps, which took place near a local airport, were successfully completed prior to the fatal fall. Aircraft from which they jumped also touched down without issue.

It is unclear how the instructor, an experienced skydiver, became separated from the safety equipment.

A individual who assisted rescue teams in the operation told a media outlet the student who authorities rescued said "he was a first-time jumper, and it was going to be his final one".

The instructor had recently written about his enthusiasm for instructing people how to skydive.

"Instructing individuals to skydive has consistently been in my view the most satisfying job at the drop zone," Mr Fuller wrote in an Instagram post in the summer.

"Watching them learn the skills and begin maneuvering their selves is always a touching moment. Sometimes though, it can become quite chaotic up there when you let someone go for their initial attempt."

During that period he shared images of the wreckage a jump aircraft he was on noting the plane's engine had malfunctioned after departure. Every individual aboard survived.