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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the fatality of a parachuting trainer following he became separated from his client during a jump in Nashville, Tennessee.

Police say trainer Justin Fuller "is presumed to have fallen from the air without a safety chute" during the jump on the weekend.

Fuller, 35 years old, appeared to have detached from his student and a tandem rig, which connects the pair during a jump and contains the parachute.

A police helicopter found the instructor's remains in a forested zone hours later. Local emergency crews utilized multiple pieces of equipment to access the 46-year old student who lived through the descent after being stuck on a tree for hours with the emergency parachute.

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

It is unclear how Mr Fuller, an experienced skydiver, became separated from the protective gear.

A man who assisted rescue teams in the operation told a local television station the student who authorities saved mentioned "it was his first jump, and it was going to be his last".

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

"Instructing individuals to parachute has consistently been in my view the most satisfying job at the drop zone," the instructor said in an social media update in the summer.

"Observing students learn the skills and start flying their selves is always a touching experience. Occasionally though, it can become quite chaotic up there when you let someone go for their first time."

That same month he shared images of the wreckage a skydiving plane he was on noting the plane's engine had malfunctioned after departure. Every individual aboard survived.