Incredible GoPro captures moment 17 skydivers survive plane crash
A skydiving plane has landed upside-down in a vineyard with 17 passengers onboard in dramatic crash captured on video.
The single-engine plane experienced trouble two minutes after taking off from Skydive Lodi Parachute Centre in California, US, and was forced to make an emergency landing on the opposite side of Highway 99 on Friday.
GoPro cameras attached to two professional skydivers showed the horrifying crash from inside the cockpit.
In one of the videos, a man can be heard telling passengers to brace themselves as the plane descended to the ground.
In the following moments, the plane crossed a road under power lines, clipped a pickup truck before it flipped and crash-landed into the vineyard.
Video shows the moment a passenger opened the door for everyone on board to emerge from the plane, which was upside-down surrounded by grape vines.
Sebastian Alvarez, the owner of one of the cameras, can be heard asking if everybody is ok.
Miraculously, all 17 of the passengers walked away with no injuries and the pilot received only a few minor cuts and a bleeding nose.
Alvarez also shared a selfie on Facebook with the caption:
“We just had an aircraft accident. Skydivers and Pilot alive! Happy to survive!!”
Lieutenant Dan Schmierer of the Woodbridge Rural Fire District said when he pulled up to the scene he saw the pilot and his passengers standing around in a group.
"I think some of them were in shock," Schmierer said.
"They were all happy to be walking away from the crash."
Schmierer and a skydiver credited the pilot because he managed to fly the plane under power lines and away from a house about 22 metres from the crash scene.
Half of the skydivers went back up in the air for another jump 15 to 20 minutes after the plane crashed, ‘’CBS’’ reports.
