An 80-year-old grandmother nearly falls out of her harness during a tandem jump from 10,000 feet. The instructor manages to hold on her to legs before landing to safety.
A parachute breaks away from the diver while falling 125 miles per hour. His reserve chute opens, but his bad luck continues when he lands on power lines suffering third degree burns.
A skydiver survives a 5,000 foot fall by landing on blackberry bushes.
It's amazing that these two jumpers managed to survive an in-air collision going 60 miles per hour.
Attempting a 8,000 foot fall, a veteran diver's parachute is unintentionally deployed by the air pressure while still on the plane. The chute becomes attached to the plane and Orlando has to set himself free.
Even people who don't jump can be involved in a skydiving fail.
A French stunt man gets caught in the Statue of Liberty on his descent.
Go to the four-minute mark to see the skydiver blacking out. Luckily he was strapped to another person.
Sometimes being strapped to someone can be awful. Watch this boy vomit and get some on the person behind him.
Watch where you land. Go to the two-minute mark to watch someone land on a house.
Randy Astaiza is a former science intern at Business Insider. He graduated from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in biology.He has worked as a Research Assistant at The Commonwealth Medical College, where he studied osteoporosis, and as a Research Associate at an immunology lab, HUMIGEN, where he worked on inflammatory bowel diseases.