Skydiving

Woman, 80, slips from skydiving harness and lives

25 May 2012

An 80-year-old woman who said she's wanted to skydive "for years" barely made it to the ground alive after she slipped out of her harness, with only her instructor's grip on her clothes stopping a 13,000-foot plummet.

Woman's Skydiving Trip From Hell

25 May 2012

A video of an elderly woman’s skydiving adventure gone horribly awry has gone viral, perhaps serving as a warning literally to look before you leap — or at least to mind your elders when it looks like they actually don’t want to jump out of the plane....

Skydiving accidents: Pensioner, 80, left hanging by a thread in terrifying tumble

25 May 2012

The 80-year-old desperately tried to cling onto the door after apparently deciding she no longer wanted to do the jump in California - and then her harness nearly fell off.