A 102-year-old woman has become the oldest skydiver in Britain after she jumped out of a plane at 7,000ft (2,133m). Manette Baillie took on the jump on Sunday at Beccles Airfield to celebrate her birthday. She has previously taken on other daring challenges including when she drove around Silverstone in a Ferrari at 130mph for her 100th birthday.
Mrs Baillie, from Benhall Green near Saxmundham in Suffolk, told BBC Radio 4 immediately after her jump she was “breathless. Prior to her jump, she told BBC Radio Suffolk she had “no idea” where her thrill-seeking attitude had come from.
“I’ve been so lucky to be fit and well that I’ve got to do something with it, that’s really the back of it,” she said.
“I can’t just waste it, other people are crippled with arthritis and I’m not.
Source: BBC
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