104-year-old woman dies days after breaking world record for oldest skydiver
Skydiver who died after hard landing on Florida front lawn identified as 69-year-old lawyerHoffner became the oldest person to jump out of an airplane with a parachute on Oct. 1, when she safely landed a 13,500-foot tandem jump at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, Illinois outside of Chicago.She broke the previous record set in 2022 by 103-year-old Swedish woman Linnéa Ingegärd. Skydive Chicago is working with Guinness to make it official.
“Skydiving is an activity that many of us safely tuck away in our bucket lists,” the Skydive Chicago spokesperson told The Sun-Times. “But Dorothy reminds us that it’s never too late to take the thrill of a lifetime.” She was “calm and confident” as the Skyvan plane door swung open, more than 2.5 miles above the rural Midwest landscape, witnesses said.“The whole thing was delightful, wonderful, couldn’t have been better,” Hoffner, who would have turned 105 in December, said.
Hoffner told reporters after her last jump she was thinking about asking her 109-year-old neighbor to join her on the next descent, according to the paper.
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