Hoffner said after she was seated on the plane, the Tribune reported. The entire dive took seven minutes. More: She turned 95. She spent her day jumping out of an airplane in Hawaii.

But Hoffner, who turns 105 this December, is not done trying new things. Her next move is to hopefully take a hot air balloon ride. “I’ve never been in one of those,” she said.

Hoffner told reporters after her last jump she was thinking about asking her 109-year-old neighbor to join her on the next descent, according to the paper. She said she wanted to take a ride in a ...

Dorothy Hoffner, 104, is believed to be the oldest person in the world to skydive. She died in her sleep in Chicago a week after her jump, her friend said.

Dorothy Hoffner, 104, went skydiving Oct. 1 and died Monday in her sleep. Guinness World Records is still working to confirm if Hoffner broke the record for the oldest person to jump from a plane.

At 104 years old, Dorothy Hoffner fell. Then she kept falling, and falling, and falling. And when the lifelong Chicagoan finally touched the ground Sunday, she landed in the history books and becam… ...

Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person in the world to skydive at age 104 on Oct. 1. She broke the record in Ottawa, Illinois. The previous record holder was Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson from ...

A 104-year-old Chicago woman traded her walker for a harness and parachute in an attempt to become the oldest person in the world to ever skydive. Dorothy Hoffner was greeted with cheers on Sunday ...