WANTAGE -- Recently published footage from a helmet camera captured a small airplane's crash last December from a skydiver's point of view.

That footage, which contains explicit language, was uploaded to YouTube Friday by Kurt ImpactSN -- one of the skydivers who was inside the plane when it crashed on Dec. 4, 2014.

"My friends and I are all experienced licensed skydivers," he said in the video caption. "We asked one of our friends to take us up in his Cessna to jump. After taking off we encountered engine issues and were forced into a muddy field. Landing gear ripped off after hitting a ditch/mud and the plane flipped over nose first. Pilot did a good job handling a bad situation."

The skydiver, who asked to be identified only as Kurt, told NJ Advance Media his group knew something was wrong with the plane pretty quickly.

"There wasn't much to think about at the time because there wasn't anything we could do," he said. "We just had to wait and see what happens."

After it crashed, he said, the only thing they were thinking about was getting out of the plane in case it caught on fire.

"The pilot did an awesome job considering the field he had to put it into," he added.

As reported by New Jersey Herald, only minor injuries were sustained by those on-board. Richard Winstock, one of the owners of Skydive Sussex, was forced to make an "off-field" landing in a muddy field near Route 639 and Route 565 due to engine trouble, the newspaper reported at the time.

Curt Kellinger, who also owns Skydive Sussex, told NJ Advance Media the National Transportation Safety Board -- along with Cessna and Continental Engines -- did a complete inspection of the aircraft and its engine after the crash.

"It's something that's not really common the way this thing quit," Kellinger said of the engine failure.

The airplane was inspected less than two months before the crash -- equivalent to 13 engine operating hours -- but "it is likely that maintenance personnel did not adequately inspect" part of the engine, according to the NTSB's report.

"We don't spare a dime when it comes to maintenance," Kellinger said. "We're in these planes all the time. They're our offices. This was an internal part of the engine that a normal pilot would never see. It had nothing to do with anything that we had done."

According to the NTSB report, an "examination revealed that both of the No. 2 cylinder intake valve springs were fractured, and visible rust was observed on the surfaces of the springs. The springs showed evidence of fatigue fractures that had originated from rust pits on the fracture surfaces. After the valve springs were replaced, the engine was capable of operating normally at full power."

The probable cause of the crash was "maintenance personnel's inadequate inspection of the No. 2 cylinder valve area during the most recent annual inspection, which resulted in the in-flight failure of the intake valve springs due to rust on the spring surfaces and subsequent fatigue cracking," according to the NTSB's report.

Kellinger complimented Winstock's handling of a fully loaded plane.

"It was the safest thing to do with everyone on board," Kellinger said of Winstock's landing in the muddy field. "He did a very good job of putting the plane down without anyone getting hurt. There's not a lot of guys who could do that."

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