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Nine skydivers and two pilots survived a mid-air crash at 12,000 feet this weekend after those aboard were able to safely parachute to the ground. Two of those aboard suffered minor injuries. The surreal crash along the Wisconsin-Minnesota border left one plane totally destroyed, forcing its pilot to eject to safety. The other plane was eventually able to land. Both planes were owned by Skydive Superior.

According to a local Fox , authorities still don't know why the two planes collided, though they were flying close to each other at the time, one following the other. Just before impact, the lead plane carried four people seconds away from jumping in formation, while the trailing plane carried five — two inside, two prepared to leap. It sounds like the crash shook off the prepared skydivers on impact, while the remaining two jumpers managed to get out of the trailing plane shortly after. The lead pilot ejected as his plane caught fire and began to break apart, using an emergency parachute to guide his descent. The other plane was in much better shape.

Every skydiver except for the pilot was equipped with a steerable parachute, letting them land more or less where they were aiming for before the crash, anyway. All of the skydivers involved in the crash were experienced, including several instructors for Skydive Superior. One of them, Mike Robinson, described the debris falling from the destroyed plane as the group descended:

“We’re in free fall, so we’re falling about 120 miles an hour vertically down...But then we open our parachutes, and now all the sudden they’re falling faster than we are. … Fortunately, everybody kept it together so they just avoided (the debris).”

Of all those involved, the pilot in the lead plane that broke apart suffered the most serious injuries: he "was visibly bloodied about his face and shirt and had one hand wrapped in a garment," according to Superior Fire Department Battalion Chief Vern Johnson's comment to CNN. According to Robinson, the pilot may need some stitches, but was not "seriously hurt." "

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ECLiPSE OF the plane...







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Ermm! Am i meant to say "Thanks" ?

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awesome

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Abeg no b here I dey go....

Na next bus stop

Luck

Olugbenger:
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#SHM

simply because no be 9ja pilots dey fly the planes

WAYO

Ok. I hear

Belle dey worry me I dey come

first to comment?falls down and faint

na stella oduah cause am

kk thank God no casualties

Air accident!
Yellow fever Traffic Warders should be deployed to the sky to control air traffic in order to avoid future occurrence.

Thank God for their safety

I'm sure some of them are in critical conditions and might die later. But it's really good that no one had died. We can now have gazillions of Kechi Okwuchi (don't really know the name) the Sosoliso plane crash survivor abi na surviver/survival.

Gbade60: Keke abeg drop me,



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bros, why you dey disgrace me like dis na? ..after 3 children fa

if this happened in Nigeria, hmmmm



the "needful" comments would have filled this thread and it would have hit 10 pages by now

something tells me it was pre-planned

Skydivers? Not all dat strange, just like two football players colliding when trying to win d ball

As I read this, looks like movie.

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this got me LOLing

Plane crash Pple die stella oduah buy 255m armod cars.na hin be say if 2 planes crash for 9ja nobodi die she go buy 2 armod private jets 251trn na as part of celebration

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Stella Odua is the cause said by A.P. Complete for me abeg.

Plane crash pple die stella oduah buy 255m 'amod' cars...na hin be say if 2 planes crash nobodi die she go buy 2 'amod' private jets of plenti plenti bilionses as part of celebration na

Yes, it's true. My name is skyscraper. I'm a skydiver by profession and i was among the skydivers that survived the air-collision. As usual, our plane took off to the apex of the sky, my esteemed abode. We had started wearing our parachute for take off when i sighted a big fish flying aimlessly towards our direction. Fortunately for my team they were already done with their parachute and when the pilot made an emergency buzz the whole crew started jumping with their customized umbrellas, but unfortunately for me i was still busy lacing my shoes not to even talk of wearing a parachute. The whole thing happened so quickly, by this time, everyone was out of the plane except me. Before i knew what was happening an inferno had taken over our plane. I was trying so hard to wear my parachute but i was too late. I literally did not know when i jumped down from the plane without my customized umbrella. I was flying down to earth in 160seconds per minute. I used my hands to cover my face because i though i was going to die. Just then i saw two angels who looked like angel Gabriel and Michael coming to me, they were in plain white robe and broad feathers. They both held my hands each and the velocity with which i was going down drastically reduced, we started going down in swarm motion. My mouth was ajar, i couldn't even utter a word. Few minutes later we finally landed on earth and the taller one ist them spoke, albeit i didn't see his mouth open but i heard a voice saying "God loves you." Before i could say Thank you they both disappeared into thin air. I went to locate my team mates and when they asked me how i managed to survived the fatal incident i just told them 'God took control. What really happened was too big for me to explain it to man's understanding. So me in thanking God because if not for him i don't know where i would be now. I've thought of quiting my skydiving job but it's too hard for me, it seemed i was born to be a skydiver, little wonder i was nicknamed sky-ridder.

Thanks Nairalanders for Reading my fairytale, now don't be stingy, can i get my likes.

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Thank god 4 der family cha.. Awon wayrey elerekere skydiving ko land diving ni