Champion skydiver BJ Worth organized the feat and motivated jumpers on each of the three successive attempts.

Worth says, "What happened today was incredible; we made history with three world-record jumps of 376, 399 and 400 people."Dieter Kirsch, the captain of the German contingent that fielded 30 jumpers says, "Never before has anyone attempted such a thing, with five huge C-130 Hercules airplanes."

"It was really one man with one vision -- BJ -- and not many people believed him, but now we have done it, all together," Kirsch says.