Military parachutes are designed for reliability and control, not freedom of movement. For decades, round canopies carried paratroopers into combat, but hard landings and injuries pushed the U.S.

"Only a few seconds passed between impact and crash," said Roberto Mascio, the director of Skydive Fano Jam Press Two skydivers, who had each completed thousands of jumps before, plummeted to their ...

Two experienced skydivers with over 8,000 jumps between them have died after their parachutes became tangled mid-air, causing them to fall to their deaths in a horrific accident. 70-year-old Ermes ...

Two experienced skydivers have plunged to their deaths after their parachutes tangled in mid-air. Ermes Zampa, 70, and Violetta Laiketsion, 63, both died at the scene. Ermes had been skydiving for ...

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 ...

Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 meters (15,000 feet). The ...

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The skydiver cut themselves free before descending into freefall and managing to release their main parachute Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to ...