Victoria Cilliers was an experienced recreational skydiver, so when both her parachute and backup chute failed, the disaster looked almost impossible. She fell 4,000 feet and hit the ground at around ...

In September 1999, Joan Murray, a 47-year-old Bank of America executive from Charlotte, North Carolina, survived a skydiving accident that left her with devastating injuries. She had jumped from about ...

A Russian paratrooper has died after his parachute failed to open during an Airborne Troops Day celebration near Moscow. The 41-year-old military soldier leapt from the plane flying at nearly 2000ft – ...

A Serie A soccer star is in intensive care on Monday after nearly drowning in Sardinia. Hayden Panettiere’s ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko breaks silence after her tragic death In the wake of her tragic ...

A 33-year-old man has died while attempting to BASE jump in Utah, authorities said. In a news release shared with PEOPLE, the Provo Police Department said first responders were summoned to Rock Canyon ...

A parachute malfunction has led to a terrible tragedy. On Saturday, a Frenchman well known in the skydiving world lost his life. He was doing a free-fall jump in the southeastern region of France this ...

LODI, Calif. (KCRA) — A skydiver was killed when her parachute failed to deploy during a jump Sunday at the Lodi Parachute Center, authorities said. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, ...