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The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into the fatality of a skydiving instructor after he got detached from his client during a dive in Nashville, Tennessee.

Police say trainer the instructor "appears to have dropped from the sky without a safety chute" during the dive on Saturday.

Fuller, 35 years old, appeared to have separated from his client and a tandem rig, which links the two during a jump and contains the parachute.

A law enforcement aircraft found the instructor's remains in a wooded area some time after. Local emergency crews utilized multiple pieces of equipment to reach the middle-aged student who lived through the descent after being stuck on a tree for some time with the emergency parachute.

Officials said several additional jumps, which took place near Nashville's John C Tune airport, were successfully completed before the deadly incident. The plane from which they leaped also landed safely.

The cause remains unknown how Mr Fuller, an seasoned parachutist, got detached from the safety equipment.

A individual who assisted rescue teams in the rescue told a local television station the student who officials rescued mentioned "it was his first jump, and it was going to be his last".

The instructor had previously posted about his enthusiasm for teaching others how to parachute.

"Teaching people to skydive has consistently been in my opinion the most rewarding role at the drop zone," Mr Fuller wrote in an social media update in June.

"Observing students learn the skills and start flying their bodies is consistently a heartwarming experience. Sometimes though, it can become quite chaotic up there when you release a student for their first time."

During that period he posted photos of the damage a jump aircraft he was on noting the aircraft's motor had failed after departure. All 20 people aboard survived.