How to Survive a mid-air collision

[AlanG]

These boys and girls are some of the luckiest people alive. I'd definitely put the lottery on after this

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/12/heres-the-hd-footage-of-that-mid-air-skydiving-plane-crash/

[Guest]

Horrendous! But if everyone survived because they were sky divers, what happened to the pilots? Were they also skydiving?

[Guest]

One pilot landed the damaged aircraft safely (probably shrugging it off as 'just a scratch' as you know how pilots are), and I think the other one bailed out with the rest of the skydivers, but my memory is sketchy ...

[AlanG]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10425364/US-skydivers-survive-mid-air-plane-collision.html

[stona]

One pilot landed the damaged aircraft safely (probably shrugging it off as 'just a scratch' as you know how pilots are), and I think the other one bailed out with the rest of the skydivers, but my memory is sketchy ...

That's right. I think most of them got away with it because many of them were already effectively outside the aeroplane. They didn't get trapped inside.

Cheers

Stev

[eddiesolo]

Lucky indeed, very frightening situation even if you're used to the job as a pilot or are a adrenaline junkie, death will and does stalk everybody, this time they avoided the scythe by a hair-breadths.

Si