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This incredible grandma went skydiving to celebrate her 94th birthday

If Eila can take the risk, what’s your excuse?

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This incredible grandma went skydiving to celebrate her 94th birthday

If Eila can take the risk, what’s your excuse?

Eila Campbell turned 94 years old this month, and decided to celebrate in a way that puts any other birthday party to shame. The Williamsport, Pennsylvania resident decided to jump out of a plane.Campbell told WNEP that she knew it was now or never to try skydiving. "This year, when I'm going to be this age, this old, I figured I'll never make it for another year," she told the TV station. "I better do it now." So she jumped out of a plane with Above the Poconos Skydivers, who had never worked with a skydiver her age before. (But the world’s oldest skydiver, 102-year-old Kenny Meyer, still has the record.) Campbell took the plunge with her granddaughter and great-granddaughter. Cameras caught her tandem skydive, which she described to PennLive.com as “kind of a wow.” "This was her bucket list and there was no way I was missing the most incredible matriarch jumping for one of the greatest families," her granddaughter, Sarah Schuelke, told WNEP. "I wasn't going to miss it."

Eila Campbell turned 94 years old this month, and decided to celebrate in a way that puts any other birthday party to shame. The Williamsport, Pennsylvania resident decided to jump out of a plane.

Campbell told that she knew it was now or never to try skydiving. "This year, when I'm going to be this age, this old, I figured I'll never make it for another year," she told the TV station. "I better do it now." So she jumped out of a plane with Above the Poconos Skydivers, who had never worked with a skydiver her age before. (But the , 102-year-old Kenny Meyer, still has the record.) Campbell took the plunge with her granddaughter and great-granddaughter.

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Cameras caught her tandem skydive, which she described to as “kind of a wow.” "This was her bucket list and there was no way I was missing the most incredible matriarch jumping for one of the greatest families," her granddaughter, Sarah Schuelke, told . "I wasn't going to miss it."