November 5, 201312 yr Commercial Member I saw a glimpse of this on a news bulletin earlier today and had to do a bit of searching on the internet for more footage which I eventually found at NBC news Link to NBC news main page: http://www.nbcnews.com/ Link direct to story (which may not work) http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/04/21308806-exclusive-images-show-skydivers-terrifying-collision-and-chaotic-plunge?lite On the weekend two skydiving planes collided, one of them had the left wing torn off and when it did the fuel exploded into a fireball. The footage is taken from cameras attached to various skydivers who were still in the planes and you can clearly see one of the planes tumbling from the sky, wingless. Somehow, all skydivers managed to survive the collision and land safely and the pilot of the wingless aircraft managed to escape as well using his emergency parachute. The other plane managed to land safely. www.antsairplanes.com
November 5, 201312 yr Its amazing they all lived ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
November 5, 201312 yr Insane. Glad they all made it. Great photography too. My dad needs to see this. He skydived for 20 years. Captain K-Man FlightBlog Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCulqmz0zmIMuAzJvDAZPkWQ // Streaming on YouTube most Wednesdays and Fridays @ 6pm CST Brian Navy
November 5, 201312 yr Very cool. I'll bet they had to go straight and wash their jump suits after that. Robert Yunque PilotEdge Ratings = CAT-11 (2016-09-13) I-11 (2016-10-23) V-3 (2016-08-01)
November 6, 201312 yr It was really lucky the pilot had a parachute and the other plane received minimal damage. I have never skydived and never will willingly. Intel i7 10700K | Asus Maximus XII Hero | Asus TUF RTX 3090 | 32GB HyperX Fury 3200 DDR4 | 1TB Samsung M.2 (W11) | 2TB Samsung M.2 (MSFS2020) | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm AIO | 43" Samsung Q90B | 27" Asus Monitor
November 6, 201312 yr This seems as unreal as that movie Gravity.......But it really did happen. Very glad each and everyone of them has walked away to live and tell their stories. What a life experience. Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
November 8, 201312 yr Really amazing video, but I have to wonder what the pilot of the lower aircraft was thinking. If they both went up together how could they lose visual contact with one another. Mark CYYZ
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