Dorothy Hoffner, a remarkable 104-year-old woman from Chicago, who undertook a skydiving attempt to secure her place in the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to jump from an airplane, has sadly passed away.
According to The Nation, her close friend, Joe Conant noted that the staff at the Brookdale Lake View senior living community discovered her lifeless body. Dorothy Hoffner is believed to have peacefully passed away in her sleep on a Sunday night.
In an awe-inspiring endeavor on October 1, Dorothy Hoffner made a tandem skydive that had the potential to etch her name into the record books as the world’s oldest skydiver. With extraordinary courage, she leaped from an altitude of 13,500 feet (4,100 meters) at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, located 85 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Chicago. This incredible feat was performed under the expert guidance of a certified instructor.
The previous record for the oldest skydiver was established in May 2022 by 103-year-old Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson from Sweden.
