New record: Oldest tandem parachute jump (female) – Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson at the age of 103 years and 259 days. She first tried paragliding at the age of 90 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration has found that a sky-diving instructor and a first-time jumper died after both of the instructor's parachutes failed to open during their ...

A Tennessee skydiving instructor died after a tandem jump went wrong over the weekend. Local media outlets identified the instructor as 35-year-old Justin Fuller. His body was found "in the clearing ...

The sky is truly the limit for Kim Knor. She’s 86 years old and proving age is just a number after completing her 865th skydiving jump in Rhode Island on Sunday. Knor is on a mission to finish 1,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skydive instructor Justin Fuller, aka Spidey, died when a tandem jump went wrong (Facebook) A skydiving instructor died after he ...

Heart-stopping footage captured a skydiver fighting for his life mid-air after his reserve chute accidentally deployed and became tangled around the tail of the plane during a routine jump. The Far ...

U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training and preparation has gone into making paratroopers actually combat effective.