Damn. That was close. The Sacramento Bee posted this video Friday, May 13 of a group of skydivers involved in a plane crash Thursday at Lodi Vineyard, where the plane clipped grapevine wires after hitting a pickup truck upon landing and flipped. The pilot squares the plane up in the field, then things go haywire. The FAA stated that the aircraft experienced engine trouble sometime after takeoff so the crew, and the pilot, were anticipating the possibility of an emergency landing. And the pilot was the only one of the 18 passengers injured, walking away with a broken nose.
Cindy Martin, whose truck was hit, had the best view of the accident. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, that plane is going to hit us — and this is a new truck,’ ” she told the Lodi-News Sentinel. She said everyone seemed “pretty excitable,” but they looked fairly calm in the video, considering the situation: the camera man walks around checking numbers. The Cessna 208 left the Parachute Center Skydiving school at the Lodi Airport in California’s San Joaquin County.
