A 79-year-old great-grandmother from Brooklyn, disobeyed her doctors' orders to skydive 13,500 feet out of an airplane in New York.
Carolyn Meiselbach said that she jumped in order to settle some unfinished business, ABC News reported.
Meiselbach told the publication that when she was young, she went through a 20-week parachute training course, but at that time she was afraid to make the jump because there was no reserve chute.
She sustained only one minor injury, a bruise on the chest from where her pacemaker mashed up against the parachute harness.
Meiselbach said that the jump was terrifying and the worst part was sitting on the floor of "the narrow, dinky plane which was not exactly a 747" while waiting for her turn to jump.
She said that she made the mistake of looking down.
Meiselbach said that as soon as the instructor pried her hands from the plane's door and led her out into the air, it wasn't so bad.
She also concentrated on keeping her mouth closed so she wouldn't lose her teeth or look weird in the pictures.
Meiselbach has served six years in the U.S. Navy and raised two sons as a single mom.
Considering all she's been through, she said that getting pushed out of a plane was a piece of cake.
