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Authorities say two people were killed while skydiving in Yadkin County. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said a skydiver ...

An experienced Canadian skydiver who crashed into a runway at the DeLand Municipal Airport has died.

Officials at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach say 24-year-old Mia Prebinski died at about 11 a.m.

Friday.

A fellow skydiver told police that Prebinski's parachute opened successfully and the jump was normal until she tried to land Thursday.

He told authorities she was too low to the ground when she tried to slow her descent.

"But it looks like he didn't do anything wrong. The canopy opened - this guy was an experienced, experienced jumper - it's just one of those things that happened."

"Deming is growing and when I have met many people here, I sometimes feel like the United States is almost coming to me."

Leap year baby Barbara Miller, 84, will celebrate her 21st birthday by jumping piggyback from an airplane with an experienced skydiver. via Silver City Sun-News