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A skydiver broke free and ultimately survived after his reserve parachute accidentally deployed and got stuck on the tail of an airplane as it was soaring through the sky. The Australian Transport ...

A 73-year-old man has died in a skydiving incident after he suffered a hard landing when his parachute didn't fully deploy during his jump, police say. The incident, which happened last Wednesday in ...

A skydiver was left dangling from the plane’s tail when his reserve parachute deployed my mistake and got caught on the aircraft 15,000 feet above the Earth, The New York Times reported. The skydiver ...

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 ...