Local skydivers takes part in record-breaking leap

FALLBROOK – Fallbrook residents Amy Dannacher and Mike Carpenter are two of the 164 professional skydivers, from all across the world, that joined forces in a successful attempt to smash the previous 138-Way Vertical World Record formation set in 2012.

The stunt required months of meticulous planning, with the jumpers being taken up in seven separate aircrafts. The planes took the skydivers to a height of 20,000 feet before they made the leap at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Ill. Falling headfirst from the sky at approximately 180 mph, the athletes had less than a minute to link hands in predeter...