Woman celebrates 90th birthday skydiving from 10,000 feet: ‘Close to heaven up there’

Meanwhile, the owner of the skydiving organisation, Ozarks Skydive Center, told the media that seeing older clients make the jump is one of the best parts of the job.

“We love it. As much as we enjoy sharing the sport with everybody, we love to see those folks come out. It’s kind of a special thing for them,” said Bryan Wolford, owner of Ozarks Skydive Center. “And when we can share it with somebody at 90, that’s pretty neat.”

But Mann wasn't their oldest skydiver, it was a 96-year-old.

But the oldest person to skydive is Alfred “Al” Blaschke from Texas. He had dived when he was 106 in November, according to the Guinness World Records.

He first broke the record in 2020, aged 103, when he jumped out of a moving plane at 14,000 feet to celebrate his twin grandsons’ college graduations.

“That was my dream... I never thought I’d be around this long,” Al had said. That was his second skydive ever; his first took place three years prior, on his 100th birthday, the Guinness World Records stated. Al decided to do his most recent skydive after his record was broken in 2022 by a Swedish woman named Rut Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson, who was aged 103 years 259 days.