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A 55-year-old woman from Minnesota died Friday, following a parachuting incident in Eloy, Arizona, according to police. Officers with the Eloy Police Department were dispatched to Skydive Arizona ...
Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
In 2014, while preparing for her 20,000th parachute jump, Stearns was hit by a car while riding her bike. [15] She suffered a traumatic brain injury, which had a wide ranging impact on her memory and cognitive function. It took two years and one week after the accident for Stearns to recover her medical certification to fly.
Broadwick ready to drop from a Martin T airplane piloted by Glenn Martin.. Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), [1] [2] or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord. [3]
A U.S. Navy parachutists crashed into a crowd of spectators at San Francisco's Fleet Week on Sunday, injuring a mother and her daughter. The parachutist, a member of the Navy's Leap Frogs ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army on Friday released the names of two of the soldiers killed when the military Black Hawk in which they were flying collided with a passenger jet, but said, in an ...
She was the first female disc jockey in the Pleasantville area. Following her graduation from high school , Savitch attended Ithaca College in Ithaca , New York , as a communications major. She was an announcer for the college’s television station, WICB, and worked in radio at nearby Rochester 's WBBF (now WROC-AM ).
A 55-year-old woman from Minnesota died in a skydiving incident in Arizona last week, authorities said. The Eloy Police Department said the incident happened on Friday, Jan. 24, at Skydive Arizona ...