Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This photo provided by Daniel Wilsey shows Dorothy Hoffner, 104, falling through the air with tandem jumper Derek Baxter as ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (WLS) -- All this week, a group of skydivers is working to break a world record in the Chicago area. They're trying to create the largest "vertical" skydive. Two-hundred sky-divers need ...

Dorothy Hoffner, a lifelong Chicagoan and centenarian who recently set a world record for being the oldest person to ever participate in a tandem skydive, has passed away just a week after her ...

Still, the fatality rate at Skydive Chicago is much higher than the national average. According to the U.S. Parachute Association, there are about 30 skydiving deaths per year in the United States.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The man who died in an Ottawa, Illinois, skydiving accident on July 7 was identified by the LaSalle County coroner as 48-year-old ...

CHICAGO - A 104-year-old Chicago woman who set an unofficial world record for skydiving last week has passed away. Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person ever to tandem skydive out of an airplane ...

Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner’s close friend, ...

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Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner’s close friend, ...