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Parachutist and airplane collide in midair
retroxler58
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MULBERRY FOX (13) 8-March'2014 LINK The website has a series of photos that depict the event.
Two men were hurt Saturday morning when a plane collided with the parachute of a skydiver in Mulberry.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office says the pilot, 87-year-old Sharon Trembley, a World War II veteran, was doing touch-and-goes in his private Cessna at the South Lakeland Airport; that's when a plane touches down briefly then takes off again.
During his third pass, the passenger side wing of his plane clipped a skydiver's parachute, cutting the chute and tossing the skydiver into the air about 75-feet above the ground.
"I have never seen anything like this and this is the last thing I thought I'd see today," said Tim Telford, who took pictures of the midair collision as it happened.
The skydiver, 49-year-old John Frost of Gainesville, was flung to the earth. The plane nose-dived into the ground.
"I thought they were both seriously hurt. We rushed over there," said Paul Fuller, one of Trembly's friends who was also watching from the ground. "He's a pretty good pilot. He's been flying all of his life, probably 60 some-odd years."
Both men were taken to the hospital. Neither was seriously injured.
Frost was treated and released. Trembley was being held for observation.
"You always hear the negatives about somebody died or somebody this, that or the other. Both these guys walked away unscathed," Telford said. "A scratch here, a bruise there and I think both are just happy to be here today."
The National Traffic and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the accident.
WOW!!! JUST WOW!
Two men were hurt Saturday morning when a plane collided with the parachute of a skydiver in Mulberry.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office says the pilot, 87-year-old Sharon Trembley, a World War II veteran, was doing touch-and-goes in his private Cessna at the South Lakeland Airport; that's when a plane touches down briefly then takes off again.
During his third pass, the passenger side wing of his plane clipped a skydiver's parachute, cutting the chute and tossing the skydiver into the air about 75-feet above the ground.
"I have never seen anything like this and this is the last thing I thought I'd see today," said Tim Telford, who took pictures of the midair collision as it happened.
The skydiver, 49-year-old John Frost of Gainesville, was flung to the earth. The plane nose-dived into the ground.
"I thought they were both seriously hurt. We rushed over there," said Paul Fuller, one of Trembly's friends who was also watching from the ground. "He's a pretty good pilot. He's been flying all of his life, probably 60 some-odd years."
Both men were taken to the hospital. Neither was seriously injured.
Frost was treated and released. Trembley was being held for observation.
"You always hear the negatives about somebody died or somebody this, that or the other. Both these guys walked away unscathed," Telford said. "A scratch here, a bruise there and I think both are just happy to be here today."
The National Traffic and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the accident.
WOW!!! JUST WOW!
Comments
2) Why would anybody parachute onto a runway?
3) Cessna 170B wanted.
1) Lucky he missed the prop.
2) Why would anybody parachute onto a runway?
3) Cessna 170B wanted.
Yeah, WHY????????????????
8-March'2014, a little old isn't it?
Yep... And..
We're all a little old...
Some of us older than others.
Sometimes news travels slower... when y'er older.
What's y'er point?
quote:Originally posted by MBK
1) Lucky he missed the prop.
2) Why would anybody parachute onto a runway?
3) Cessna 170B wanted.
Yeah, WHY????????????????
Not to mention the power lines.
Dennis, are there any "stains" on that chute? Tom
I'm bettin' there's plenty of stain in his pants.
Hard to believe that nobody was killed.
I wonder who was at fault.
Lots of parachutists land at airports. That is where the airplanes are.
We had a skydiving club in my little town in central Georgia, and their landing field was the grass next to the paved runway at the little county airport. Never had a midair between a plane and a chute.