104-year-old Chicago woman Dorothy Hoffner hopes to be certified as the oldest person ever to skydive. She left her walker on the ground and did a tandem jump in northern Illinois, the Guardian reports. “Age is just a number,” said Dorothy...

A skydiver who made her first jump missed her planned landing site and became entangled in high-voltage power lines, reports the DailyStar. Firefighters from Riverside County, California, were called to Lake Elsinore to rescue a trapped rookie skydiver. The electricity in the area had to be turned off…

The 54-year-old skydiver, who has had more than a thousand successful jumps, died in the city of Monroe Township in central New Jersey. Apparently, his parachute did not open as it should: the man fell on a city street between parked cars and crashed to death. ...