US skydivers survive mid-air plane collision Mr Robinson, 64, said he and three other skydivers had climbed out on to a step on their Cessna 182, and were poised to jump, when the second plane came from behind and crashed down on top of theirs. All of us knew we had a crash. The wing over our head was gone, so we just left. Three skydivers who were poised to jump from the second plane were knocked into the air by the impact, while two inside managed to jump out after the crash. All then safely parachuted down to the ground. The pilot of Mr Robinson's plane landed with an emergency parachute and was treated in hospital for minor injuries. The pilot of the second plane returned to Richard I. Bong Airport and landed. The skydivers said they were forced to steer around debris and had "parts of the airplane floating in the air with us" as they travelled down to the ground. Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were on Monday investigating the cause of the accident. Mr Robinson, who had been preparing to make his 937th jump, acknowledged the group had been fortunate. "It might've been a lot worse," he said. Everybody, to a person, responded just as they should.