Robert “Bobby” McCord, a Kauai contractor and skydiver who once competed on the national level, died Saturday after a hard landing during a solo jump on Oahu’s North Shore.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office identified McCord, of Kapaa, on Sunday. He was 62.

McCord was a customer with Pacific Skydiving when he was fatally injured at about 8:20 a.m. Saturday at the Dillingham Airfield.

Pacific Skydiving Manager Randy Pacheco said McCord jumped out of a plane at an altitude of about 14,000 feet. His parachute opened properly, but McCord turned the wrong way while coming in for a landing and his parachute clipped a tree branch. McCord then fell about 40 feet to the ground.

McCord ran into trouble about 20 feet from the landing zone, which is surrounded by trees, Pacheco said.

About 15 other skydivers jumped from the plane with McCord, and some rushed to his aid, including an emergency room military doctor and a nurse, who began CPR, Pacheco said.

Paramedics continued administering CPR and took McCord in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.

McCord’s sister, Carol McCord Dix of Colorado, said McCord loved surfing, golfing and other sports but had a love of air sports.

He was also a hang glider and recently began participating in paragliding distance competitions, recently in Mexico and Oregon, and was planning to attend an event in Colombia.

“He was really a wonderful guy,” she said. “He got along with just about everybody.”

McCord grew up in Southern California and came to Hawaii, where he had family ties, in the 1990s as a contractor. He did painting and wallpaper work on Kauai.

McCord’s childhood friend Scott Flanegin of Los Angeles said McCord started skydiving in the late 1970s or early ’80s and had done more than 2,000 skydives and more than 200 BASE jumps, including from buildings, bridges and radio towers in California.

He said he and McCord were on a 10-person parachuting team, the FX Speedstars, that won a gold medal in 1991 at a national U.S. Parachute Association event for being the fastest to form a 10-person star after jumping out of a DC-3 plane.

After moving to Hawaii, McCord stopped skydiving for about 10 years because there weren’t skydiving facilities on Kauai, Flanegin said. But McCord began skydiving again recently during visits to Oahu.

McCord had “a complete joy for life,” Flanegin said. “My heart is broken.”

McCord’s sister said he had two cats, Mickey and OJ.