Ten skydivers jump to safety after their plane's mid-air collision...
Staying on the airplane because of second thoughts wasn't an option for one group of skydivers in Superior, Wisconsin yesterday. That's because the plane was about to crash.
It was like a situation straight out of James Bond in that only one person was injured in the collision. The two planes owned by Skydive Superior were doing a maneuver called a tracking dive where the lead plane, a Cessna 185, was being closely followed by the tracking plane, a Cessna 182.
64-year-old flight instructor Mike Robinson was in the lead plane around 6pm when the tracking plane came up and collided with it. Thankfully, all of the jumpers in the lead plane were getting ready to exit the plane anyway.
'We were just kind of lucky that we were at the point where we were out of the airplane,' Mr Robinson told the Duluth News Tribune. 'If we'd been back in the rear of the airplane when they collided it might have been a little bit different.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486272/Ten-skydivers-jump-safety-planes-mid-air-collision--spare-parachute-pilot.html
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