Tom Cruise was awarded a Guinness World Record during the production of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” by doing 16 burning parachute jumps while filming the climactic plane sequence. Yes, ...

A 103-year-old Swedish woman yesterday set the world record for the oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump, saying she planned to celebrate "with a little cake". "It was wonderful to do ...

A skydiver had a miraculous escape after his parachute became caught on a plane’s wing while 15,000ft up in the air. Dramatic footage captured the moment the jump went horribly wrong, seconds after ...

Dundalk’s Pat Brady set to mark his 84th birthday in a special way Pat Brady who is doing a parachute jump in aid of the Cara Cancer Society to mark his 84th birthday with sons Paul and Dean and ...

A soldier who was in the Army Ranger unit when he dislocated his ankle in his first parachute jump has been awarded €80,000 damages by the High Court. Mr Justice Bernard Barton said Cpl Gerard Kirby ...

A student who was left paralysed after breaking her neck in a university parachute jump is suing for £15million, claiming medics should not have cleared her as fit to take part because she was ...