It only takes a 40-minute training class, an instructor on your back (literally) and 10,000 feet between you and Earth to make a tandem skydive. OK, and maybe a lot of guts. But for Bruce Conroy ...

A man who was killed in a skydiving accident at Byron Airport in unincorporated Contra Costa County on Saturday has been identified as 43-year-old Donald Brown of American Canyon.

Robert Whitsitt, 54, jumped out of a Beechcraft King Air 90 at about 3 p.m. Sunday after the plane had taken off from Byron Airport, said Gareth Holder, a skydiving instructor with Bay Area Skydiving.

The plane was leased by Bay Area Skydiving in Byron, a new company took over in 2018 but did not acquire the plane. It's unclear how the aircraft got to Hawaii, but sources say it cleared Federal ...

Authorities responded at about 7:40 p.m. to the airport, where Brown had been out with a parachuting club, Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said. As Brown was descending, his ...

BYRON — As a way of kick-starting a new leadership program between Byron Public Schools and the MINDSET Foundation, two retired Navy SEALs are skydiving onto a football field this morning.

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