Granny takes parachute plunge
A 100-year-old Brazilian grandmother will experience gravity in a
whole new way this Christmas when she takes the plunge out of an
airplane to become the world's oldest parachuter, local news site G1
reported Saturday.
Aida Mendes asked her grandson as a Christmas gift to help her
arrange the jump which would get her into the Guinness Book of world
records.
After getting the green light from doctors and her loved ones, Mendes
was planning to leap from a plane above Macapa, a city in the Northern
state of Amapa, this weekend, according to the website.
"This is not my birthday present, it's my Christmas gift," Mendes,
who turned 100 in November, was quoted as saying.
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