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A skydiver's parachute got caught on an aircraft, forcing a dramatic mid-air escape. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.

U.S. Marines assigned to Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a high altitude low opening jump during category 3 sustainment training in Louisburg ...

A man who discovered the parachute believes a man who executed a similar hijacking was D.B. Cooper Federal Bureau of Investigation A parachute that might have been used by the skyjacker who called ...

Officials in Fussa, western Tokyo, lodged a protest with the U.S. military on Dec. 9 after equipment from a parachute training exercise fell onto a local children’s center and was later retrieved ...

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 ...

The parachute is one of many inventions attributed to Leonardo — but, in fact, he did not invent it. In 1968, researchers examining an obscure trove of Renaissance drawings discovered sketches from ...