Paraglider survives 32,000ft fall
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A German paragliding champion survives being sucked into a thunderstorm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest.
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Nearly 100 competitors have drifted above the Sawtooth Mountains in central Idaho this week in the United States paragliding championships.
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The controversial tilt-rotor aircraft has defied its critics with its performance to date in its harsh new landscape.
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NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol survives a plane crash in southwestern Colorado on Sunday.
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A man of 35 who fell to his death during a race in Snowdonia is believed to have lost his way in low cloud
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An extreme sportsman from Britain plunged to his death at the weekend after the 35-year-old base jumped off a cliff in the Swiss Alps but failed to open his parachute in time.
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PHILADELPHIA _ A Swedish astronaut kept a Frisbee in the air for 20 seconds Friday, claiming the new world record for "Maximum Time Aloft".  Only thing is, it was floating in zero gravity, aboard the International Space Station.
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A passenger plane with 47 people aboard has crashed in northern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. It says chances are slim of anyone surviving the crash near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region.
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TAYLORVILLE, Ill. -- A single-engine plane that had been carrying members of a parachuting club crashed into a bean field west of this central Illinois city, killing one man whose parachute got tangled in the plane.
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Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Sports, survived a charter jet crash that killed at least two people in Colorado on Sunday, the network told a local affiliate.
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A New York window cleaner who survived a 500ft (150m) fall is making a "miracle recovery", doctors say.
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A hill walker is rescued after falling about 600ft from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe.
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The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward the edge of the atmosphere.
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BEIJING - There were no survivors in a plane crash that occurred in northern China Sunday, say government officials. There were 47 passengers and three crew members on board the plane headed for Shanghai.
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TULSA, Okla. - A bungee cord on a thrill ride broke, leaving a man dangling 25 feet off the ground for a half-hour until he was rescued by firefighters. Steve Alan Stone, 48, was not seriously hurt in the incident Monday at the Tulsa State Fair.
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Three people celebrating a 40th  birthday with a joyflight had a miraculous escape after their  pilot was forced to crash-land his plane on a quiet Australian  road, despite losing the aircraft's wings on the way down.
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An Israeli man had to be rescued from the middle of a minefield on Saturday after crashing his paraglider near the border with Syria.