Holy Crap! A Skydiver Takes Down A Plane And Both Survive

[madokie]

Holy Crap! A Skydiver Takes Down A Plane And Both Survive

This series of photos from MyFoxTampaBay.com show the harrowing collision between a skydiver and a small Cessna earlier today in South Lakeland Florida. Amazingly, both the skydiver and the pilot walked away with non-serious injuries.

According to witnesses, the pilot of the plane was 87-year-old WWII veteran Sharon Trembley who was practicing touch-and-goes when he happened upon 49-year-old skydiver John Frost who was landing. As the photos show, Frost's parachute becomes entangled in the wing and both of them immediately crash into the ground.

Somehow, neither of them were seriously injured. I guess the lesson here is: Watch where you're landing.

http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/holy-crap-a-skydiver-takes-down-a-plane-and-both-surv-1539708827/@matthardigree

[newfie11]

1. Omg!!

That's some scary pictures!!
Their both very lucky.

[Major Nikon]

2. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often

The way most jump operations work is the jump plane takes off from a small airfield, climbs to the jump altitude directly over the airfield and the jumpers parachute back down as the jump plane lands and the process starts all over again. They broadcast the presence of the jumpers on the frequency for the airfield, but if someone misses the call or just doesn't see the jumpers, collisions can and do happen.

[TeeYiYi]

3. This thread needs pictures...

More at the link: http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/24923080/2014/03/08/plane-collides-into-skydivers-parachute-mid-air

TYY

[PCIntern]

4. I love power lines near airport runways...

my friend, now deceased having gone missing in his Cessna in FL in the Seventies, used to fly out of the Perkasie, PA airport and had to miss lines which were sufficiently close to the end of the runway that they had the orange warning balls on them and were really frighening to this high school student at the time. I can't believe we used to fly all of the time: and that I survived. He did not.

[TeeYiYi]

5. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. :(

Glad you're still here.

TYY

[PCIntern]

6. Weirdest story...

they think he was abducted by an escaped prisoner. Witnesses told consistent stories about him being seen with someone at the airport and getting into the plane with a guy who fit the convict's description and then...nothing...no wreckage - the Everglades are famous for collecting stuff which is never found - no bodies, no nothing.

[TeeYiYi]

7. Any chance they headed south of the border?...

...possibly together, as 'friends'?...

TYY

[PCIntern]

8. No. None.

Not a chance in a billion. This was extraordinary and the police were obsessed with the case for years. It killed the kid's dad - he had a massive heart attack shortly afterwards. It was very complex and the Feds were all over it as were the locals and the University he attended. Some story...

[TeeYiYi]

10. :'( ..nt

TYY

[L0oniX]

9. Lakeland is the home of air accidents.