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Parachutist Dies During Routine Jump In UK, Skydiving Centre Says It Was A "Deliberate Act"
A 32-year-old woman who had successfully parachuted more than 400 times in the past died on Sunday during a routine jump at a skydiving centre in England.
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Air Force Instructor Suffers Injuries During Parachute Jump In Agra, Dies
The Indian Air Force has suffered its second big loss in four days after a Para Jump Instructor died because of injuries sustained during a training exercise in Agra on Saturday. The pilot of a Jaguar fighter jet had died on Wednesday after the aircr
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73-Year-Old US Man Dies While Skydiving After Parachute Fails To Open
Terry Gardner, was skydiving with three fellow experienced people, who were making their third jump when the incident took place.
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Watch: Ex-Navy Officer Skydives From 10,000 Feet With 'Jai Shree Ram' Flag
When the plane reaches 10,000 feet in the air, he jumps, opens up his parachute, and then unfurls the flag mid-air.
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"I Am So Happy...": Gaza Children Get Rare Chance To Sing, Play Amid Israel-Hamas Truce
Displaced Gazan children clapped, sang and jumped up and down clasping a giant multi-coloured parachute, rare moments of fun as the truce between Israel and Hamas gave an opportunity for a youth group to entertain them in a school courtyard.
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Man Jumps Off Eiffel Tower With A Parachute, Arrested
A man was arrested in Paris on Thursday after jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute, police and the monument's operator said.
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British Base Jumper Dies After Plunging 400 Metres From Mountain In Italy
Base jumping is an extreme sport that involves leaping from fixed objects such as buildings, bridges, and cliff faces, using a parachute to descend to the ground.
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Dog Jumps Off 2,300-Foot Cliff, Parachutes To The Ground With Owner. Watch
A brave dog was captured on camera jumping off a 2,300-foot cliff and parachuting to the ground with his owner.
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US Paratroopers Hurt In Botched Night Jump, Some Stuck In Trees: Report
Several US paratroopers were injured in a botched night parachute exercise in Mississippi Wednesday, local media reported.
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Someone's Leaping Off D.C. Skyscraper. Is It A 68-Year-Old Grandfather?
From 32 stories up, evening traffic in suburban Tysons, Virginia, looks like Matchbox cars being pushed around a plastic track on the grainy video. Suddenly, a person enters the frame, leaping from the top of the skyscraper-like a cliff diver.
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World War II Veterans Recreate 1944 Parachute Jump On D-Day Anniversary
Veteran paratroopers who served during the D-Day landings of 1994 aimed high once more on Wednesday, repeating their feat and forgetting their age to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
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Abhinandan Varthaman, The Pilot Who May Have Averted An India-Pakistan War
He parachuted out over enemy territory. Fired in the air to keep back angry locals. Jumped into a pond and then destroyed documents by eating them.
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Joachim Ronneberg, Saboteur Who Crippled Nazi Nuclear Project, Dies At 99
The plan was audacious, requiring a midnight parachute jump onto a snow-covered mountain plateau, cross-country skiing in subzero temperatures, and an assault on an isolated, heavily guarded power plant in southern Norway.
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British Army Soldier Tried To Murder Wife By Sabotaging Her Parachute
A British army sergeant who sabotaged his wife's parachute, causing her to plunge 4,000 feet to the ground after jumping from a plane, was found guilty on Thursday of trying to murder her.
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Video: Base Jumper Falls 24 Floors After Parachute Fails To Open. Survives
Against all odds, a base jumper from Sweden is lucky to be alive as he slammed to the ground from a 246-foot-tall building after his parachute failed to deploy.
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Parachutist Dies During Routine Jump In UK, Skydiving Centre Says It Was A "Deliberate Act"
A 32-year-old woman who had successfully parachuted more than 400 times in the past died on Sunday during a routine jump at a skydiving centre in England.
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Air Force Instructor Suffers Injuries During Parachute Jump In Agra, Dies
The Indian Air Force has suffered its second big loss in four days after a Para Jump Instructor died because of injuries sustained during a training exercise in Agra on Saturday. The pilot of a Jaguar fighter jet had died on Wednesday after the aircr
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73-Year-Old US Man Dies While Skydiving After Parachute Fails To Open
Terry Gardner, was skydiving with three fellow experienced people, who were making their third jump when the incident took place.
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Watch: Ex-Navy Officer Skydives From 10,000 Feet With 'Jai Shree Ram' Flag
When the plane reaches 10,000 feet in the air, he jumps, opens up his parachute, and then unfurls the flag mid-air.
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"I Am So Happy...": Gaza Children Get Rare Chance To Sing, Play Amid Israel-Hamas Truce
Displaced Gazan children clapped, sang and jumped up and down clasping a giant multi-coloured parachute, rare moments of fun as the truce between Israel and Hamas gave an opportunity for a youth group to entertain them in a school courtyard.
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Man Jumps Off Eiffel Tower With A Parachute, Arrested
A man was arrested in Paris on Thursday after jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute, police and the monument's operator said.
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British Base Jumper Dies After Plunging 400 Metres From Mountain In Italy
Base jumping is an extreme sport that involves leaping from fixed objects such as buildings, bridges, and cliff faces, using a parachute to descend to the ground.
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Dog Jumps Off 2,300-Foot Cliff, Parachutes To The Ground With Owner. Watch
A brave dog was captured on camera jumping off a 2,300-foot cliff and parachuting to the ground with his owner.
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US Paratroopers Hurt In Botched Night Jump, Some Stuck In Trees: Report
Several US paratroopers were injured in a botched night parachute exercise in Mississippi Wednesday, local media reported.
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Someone's Leaping Off D.C. Skyscraper. Is It A 68-Year-Old Grandfather?
From 32 stories up, evening traffic in suburban Tysons, Virginia, looks like Matchbox cars being pushed around a plastic track on the grainy video. Suddenly, a person enters the frame, leaping from the top of the skyscraper-like a cliff diver.
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World War II Veterans Recreate 1944 Parachute Jump On D-Day Anniversary
Veteran paratroopers who served during the D-Day landings of 1994 aimed high once more on Wednesday, repeating their feat and forgetting their age to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
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Abhinandan Varthaman, The Pilot Who May Have Averted An India-Pakistan War
He parachuted out over enemy territory. Fired in the air to keep back angry locals. Jumped into a pond and then destroyed documents by eating them.
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Joachim Ronneberg, Saboteur Who Crippled Nazi Nuclear Project, Dies At 99
The plan was audacious, requiring a midnight parachute jump onto a snow-covered mountain plateau, cross-country skiing in subzero temperatures, and an assault on an isolated, heavily guarded power plant in southern Norway.
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British Army Soldier Tried To Murder Wife By Sabotaging Her Parachute
A British army sergeant who sabotaged his wife's parachute, causing her to plunge 4,000 feet to the ground after jumping from a plane, was found guilty on Thursday of trying to murder her.
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Video: Base Jumper Falls 24 Floors After Parachute Fails To Open. Survives
Against all odds, a base jumper from Sweden is lucky to be alive as he slammed to the ground from a 246-foot-tall building after his parachute failed to deploy.
