A haunting video captured the tragic moment when a skydiving instructor met an untimely end, tumbling helplessly off the edge of a cliff after his parachute failed.
Usually, you would expect passengers to bail out of a stricken aeroplane, but in this case, the plane had its own parachute which saved the lives of everyone onboard.
This incredibly fortunate skydiver experienced the worst possible thing that can happen while falling from the sky: a double parachute malfunction.
Daredevil Airborne Ben showed off his absolutely insane “double jump” from a rather unstable looking cliffside onto a teetering 975-metre “rock tower”.
A few keen-eyed Redditors and Twitter users took a look at Perseverance’s parachute and picked up on something that most of us missed.
Yesterday, former paratrooper John Bream flung himself out of a helicopter in the name of a good cause.
During Saturday’s Inauguration, one SA National Defence Force parachutist didn’t cover himself in glory.
Diddy celebrated his birthday in style by living his “best life”, jumping out of a plane and landing in the gardens of the Playboy Mansion.
There are many things you shouldn’t do with your laces untied, and now you can add parachuting to that list. This time it has a happy ending, though.
You’re going to have to throw me out of a plane if you want me to skydive, and this video won’t go any way to changing that.
To date, the Cirrus parachute has saved over 300 lives – but watching how it works it still a miracle in itself.
Red Bull hosted to the first ever Aces race this past week, and just the concept of the event is insane, let alone the actual race.
This is like one of those bad dreams. A base jumper near Moab, Utah, fully collided with the cliff he’d just jumped off – and then had to face an age-long tumble to the ground.
Ascape artist Anthony Martin was handcuffed, locked inside a coffin-like plywood box, and then pushed out of an airplane flying 4,460 metres above the ground. Martin said:
Yesterday, a British man made history by becoming the first person to jump from a helicopter at 2 400ft, without a parachute, and survive.
BASE jumper Jeb Corliss is airlifted to hospital after breaking his leg in a fall on Table Mountain. Extreme sports enthusuaists will know that world famous BASE jumper, Jeb Corliss, is in Cape Town. Last week he made headlines by succesfully completing a controlled descent wingsuit flight off of Table Mountain, at insane speeds. Check […]