Shital Mahajan dives with national flag from 5,000 feet

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Pune – Indian skydiver Padmashree Sheetal Mahajan, also referred to as the jump queen, jumped from plane at a height of 5,000 with Tri-colour in Finland. She has made 18 national and 6 world records in sky diving.

Now she jumped with the national flag from the aircraft today on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day at the Finland Skydiving Center.

Indian Ambassador to Finland, Vani Rao handed over the national flag to Sheetal around 2 pm (Indian Standard Time), 11.30 am Finland time. With this flag, Shital made sky-diving at 3 pm (Indian Time).

Shital Mahajan was born on September 19, 1982 at Pune in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra to mother Mamta Mahajan, a housewife, and father Kamalakar Mahajan, a machine worker at Tata Motors. She received a BSc in geology from Fergusson College in Pune. Inspired by the feats of a friend’s brother, she developed a fascination with para jumping. Her first jump was on 18 April 2004,

Shital is married to Vaibhav Rane, a software engineer working in Finland. The marriage ceremony was performed on a hot air balloon, 600 feet above ground, on 19 April 2008, a feat which has been recorded in the Limca Book of World Records. The couple has two sons.