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British Skydiver Falls To Death From 29-Storey Building As Parachute Fails To Open
The parachute he was holding failed to deploy and he crashed through a tree and fell to the ground.
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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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BASE Jumper Left Hanging After Parachute Gets Caught In Thailand Cliff
A BASE jumper was left hanging half way up a Thai cliff for several hours after his parachute got caught on jagged rocks hundreds of feet above the ground.
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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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Ex Army Officer Completes India's Highest BASE Jump From Noida Building
One of India's best BASE jumpers Lt Col (retd) Satyendra Verma set a new record as he completed India's highest BASE jump from the 56th floor of a building in Delhi NCR's Noida.
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Pilot Dies While Broadcasting His Jump On Facebook
A 28-year-old Italian wingsuit pilot died in the Alps while broadcasting his daring jump live on social networking site Facebook.
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World Trade Center Skydivers 'Sullied' 9/11 Memories
Two base jumpers who skydived off the World Trade Center "sullied the memories" of victims of the 9/11 attacks, a New York judge said Monday, slapping them with hefty sentences of community service.
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World Trade Center Jumpers Convicted at New York Trial
Three Americans were convicted at trial Monday with base jumping and reckless endangerment after skydiving off the World Trade Center in the middle of the night nearly two years ago.
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Two Base Jumpers Killed in New Deaths in French Alps
Two base jumpers were killed in separate accidents in the French Alps on Sunday after parachuting off mountains in their wingsuits.
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Jumper breaks legs in Table Mountain stunt jump
A well-known American base jumper was in intensive care in a South African hospital after leaping off Cape Town's Table Mountain and crashing into the slope, the Cape Times reported on Tuesday.
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Watch: 120 base jumpers jump off KL Tower
Hundred and twenty sky-diving enthusiasts jumped safely on Thursday from Malaysia's 421 meter high KL Towers as part of the KL Tower International Jump, a BASE-jumping event that began in 2000. BASE stands for the places such jumpers usually leap from: buildings, antennae, spans and earth.Last week, an Australian woman fell to her death in Malaysia...
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British Skydiver Falls To Death From 29-Storey Building As Parachute Fails To Open
The parachute he was holding failed to deploy and he crashed through a tree and fell to the ground.
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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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BASE Jumper Left Hanging After Parachute Gets Caught In Thailand Cliff
A BASE jumper was left hanging half way up a Thai cliff for several hours after his parachute got caught on jagged rocks hundreds of feet above the ground.
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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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Ex Army Officer Completes India's Highest BASE Jump From Noida Building
One of India's best BASE jumpers Lt Col (retd) Satyendra Verma set a new record as he completed India's highest BASE jump from the 56th floor of a building in Delhi NCR's Noida.
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Pilot Dies While Broadcasting His Jump On Facebook
A 28-year-old Italian wingsuit pilot died in the Alps while broadcasting his daring jump live on social networking site Facebook.
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World Trade Center Skydivers 'Sullied' 9/11 Memories
Two base jumpers who skydived off the World Trade Center "sullied the memories" of victims of the 9/11 attacks, a New York judge said Monday, slapping them with hefty sentences of community service.
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World Trade Center Jumpers Convicted at New York Trial
Three Americans were convicted at trial Monday with base jumping and reckless endangerment after skydiving off the World Trade Center in the middle of the night nearly two years ago.
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Two Base Jumpers Killed in New Deaths in French Alps
Two base jumpers were killed in separate accidents in the French Alps on Sunday after parachuting off mountains in their wingsuits.
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Jumper breaks legs in Table Mountain stunt jump
A well-known American base jumper was in intensive care in a South African hospital after leaping off Cape Town's Table Mountain and crashing into the slope, the Cape Times reported on Tuesday.
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Watch: 120 base jumpers jump off KL Tower
Hundred and twenty sky-diving enthusiasts jumped safely on Thursday from Malaysia's 421 meter high KL Towers as part of the KL Tower International Jump, a BASE-jumping event that began in 2000. BASE stands for the places such jumpers usually leap from: buildings, antennae, spans and earth.Last week, an Australian woman fell to her death in Malaysia...
