Mid Air Collision Over Wisconsin, All Survive

After I saw the pics on the news today I was really glad to hear everyone got out. The end result looked real ugly.
 
They have this on video. I just saw it on NBC Nightly News. Freaking insane footage but somehow I cant find it on Youtube and the video link seems to be broken on the nightly news site.
 
Got a story from a tower controller at DLH, He thought they were using flares on their chutes until he took out the binoculars and saw that it was a wing on fire. crazy shiznit
 
Here's a still
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Unbelievable!
 
Houston said:
For more reason than one. Typically the chute the pilot has isn't the kind anyone wants to jump with.
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When I flew divers I was told it was just a round reserve with no real control and I would most likely break something or multiple bones if I used it. Better than nothing though I guess.
 
I'm glad everyone is ok, too. Now that we're all glad that no one was hurt, I'd like to know what someone did to cause this. WTF, over? Who gets over the top of another plane and then flies down into it? (OK, who other than lovey dovey Alaskan Bush pilots flying for competing operators on the same route getting all smitten and ending up smote?) What was this guy thinking? Distracted by the jumpers? Level-flight G-lock? Temporary loss of minimal good sense?
 
Crop Duster said:
I'm glad everyone is ok, too. Now that we're all glad that no one was hurt, I'd like to know what someone did to cause this. WTF, over? Who gets over the top of another plane and then flies down into it? (OK, who other than lovey dovey Alaskan Bush pilots flying for competing operators on the same route getting all smitten and ending up smote?) What was this guy thinking? Distracted by the jumpers? Level-flight G-lock? Temporary loss of minimal good sense?
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Looks like the we're both in small blind spots. I would think the lead plane would be higher so when they jump the people in the trailing plane can see them exit and jump out to easily meet them. I only did one formation drop and that's how we did it, no idea if that's right or not
 
When I used to jump the Jumpmaster would do the spotting, initially through the window, and then through the open door. I didn't see that here. Perhaps a little CRM between pilot & jumpers would be in order on formation jumps.
 
Well I give it 3 months until all skydiving pilots will be required to have at least a restricted ATP. Don't worry at least it's only 1000 hours if you go to one of those fancy flight schools.
 
I would imagine another risk associated with formation aircraft dropping jumpers is someone jumping into the prop of the other aircraft. I'm more amazed no one got hit be either of them in this accidnet.
 
Crop Duster said:
I'm glad everyone is ok, too. Now that we're all glad that no one was hurt, I'd like to know what someone did to cause this. WTF, over? Who gets over the top of another plane and then flies down into it? (OK, who other than lovey dovey Alaskan Bush pilots flying for competing operators on the same route getting all smitten and ending up smote?) What was this guy thinking? Distracted by the jumpers? Level-flight G-lock? Temporary loss of minimal good sense?
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I don't know much about formation flying, but everyone who does (e.g, @Hacker15e, @bunk22) assures me that it's generally a terrible idea unless you've been trained in it.
 
I completely agree -- untrained formation flying is a recipe for disaster.

Not sure if that's the root cause here, though. Without knowing a lot more about how the jump was supposed to go, it is impossible to tell.
 
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