Dorothy Hoffner, 104, broke the Guinness World Record for oldest tandem parachute jump less than a week before she died in her sleep.
Dorothy Hoffner broke the Guinness World Record for oldest tandem parachute jump on October 1 A 104-year-old woman died peacefully in her sleep – days after breaking the world record for oldest person to skydive. Dorothy Hoffner hopped from a plane at Skydive Chicago Airport on October 1 broke the Guinness World Record for oldest tandem parachute jump set by a 103-year-old Swedish woman last year.
‘There was nothing scary about it,’ Hoffner told the Chicago Sun-Times after landing. ‘It was nice, peaceful.’ Less than a week later, on Monday, Hoffner died in her sleep, her friends told the newspaper. Hoffner did not see her age stopping her from breaking the world record – which she did not make a big deal of. ‘What has age got to do with what you’re doing?’ told the Sun-Times afterward. ‘I’m 104 years old, so what?’ Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected].
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