BYRON (CBS SF) -- A man killed in a skydiving accident at the Byron Airport in Contra Costa County on Saturday was an experienced jumper who had a lapse in judgment, a skydiving teacher said Tuesday.

Reporting from Perris -- The competition was high-performance and high-risk, and Sean Carey and his 16 fellow skydivers knew it. They were equipped with special parachutes that allowed a faster and ...

A 29-year-old champion skydiver from Australia was killed in Texas while testing a high-risk method for the sport called “swooping.” Melissa Porter, of Perth, an instructor at Skydive Spaceland ...

A low-altitude extreme sport takes skydiving's exhilaration to new levels. Sept. 18, 2008— -- For those who think sky diving is a thing of the past, here's the latest extreme sport craze to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONGMONT, Colo.—Jumping out of an airplane at 5,000 feet, weighted down and navigating toward a piece of land marked by flags, is an exhilarating experience ...

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - The Boulder County coroner's office is investigating the death of a skydiver who hit the ground while practicing swooping maneuvers in Longmont. The coroner said Monday that ...

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – JT Holmes glided down toward Hyatt Beach from high above Lake Tahoe’s clear blue depths, his red skydiving jumpsuit and black parachute framed against a cloudless sky. As he ...

DeLAND — When the thrill of jumping out of an airplane wears off, sky divers turn to swooping. Widely considered the most dangerous form of skydiving, swoopers parachute from a plane, come within a ...

A chow is something skydivers want to avoid. Yet in the newest discipline of skydiving called swooping, chows are unavoidable. Inevitably, some participants eat it. “That’s one of the sales pitches to ...

A champion skydiver from Australia reportedly died in Texas while testing a high-risk method for the sport called ‘swooping.’ 29-year-old Melissa Porter, of Perth, was an instructor at Skydive ...