Footage emerges of mid-air skydiving plane crash

Extended footage has emerged of the amazing survival of nine skydivers and two pilots from a mid-air plane crash.

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Watch the compiled helmet camera footage of the collision and the miraculous survival of the divers. Footage courtesy of Jukin Sports.

Their helmet cameras were supposed to capture a routine sky dive- but instead captured the unbelievable images of their own survival as they crash-dived 12,000 feet to the ground following a collision with another plane.

In early November two Cessna planes were flying over Wisconsin on their last skydive of the day.

The 9 skydivers were making preparations to jump, and skydivers in each plane had climbed out of the plane onto the bar, dangling in mid-air.
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Here you can see the bottom plane coming into view as the skydivers make preparations, as yet unaware of its approach.
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On impact, a few of the skydivers on the bar and in the plane fall off immediately but one holds on as a fireball engulfs the plane.
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The plane begins to crash and after a few seconds of holding on desperately he then lets go.
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The two sky-divers preparing to jump from the bottom plane immediately fall out - as they look backwards they capture astonishing images of the two planes burning and falling- with the other skydivers still emerging.
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Falling at approximately 200 km per hour, all 9 sky-divers activated their parachutes and landed safely.

The pilot of one of the planes used his emergency parachute and abandoned the plane, also landing safely.

The second plane was able to land at the Richard I. Bong Airport with damage to the propeller and the wing.
64 year old skydiver Mike Robinson told NBC news that “the outcome for us was as good as it could be."

An experienced skydiver, Robinson told NBC that it was his fourth jump of the day and just one of over 900 skydives throughout his lifetime.

However he said he will "remember this one more than most."

The cause of the accident is unknown, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The planes were owned by Skydive Superior.


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