Ten skydivers jump to safety after their plane's mid-air collision... and there was even a spare parachute for the pilot!

Staying on the airplane because of second thoughts wasn't an option for one group of skydivers in Superior, Wisconsin yesterday. That's because the plane was about to crash.

It was like a situation straight out of James Bond in that only one person was injured in the collision. The two planes owned by Skydive Superior were doing a maneuver called a tracking dive where the lead plane, a Cessna 185, was being closely followed by the tracking plane, a Cessna 182.



64-year-old flight instructor Mike Robinson was in the lead plane around 6pm when the tracking plane came up and collided with it.

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Time to jump: Two planes collided during a skydiving trip yesterday in Superior, Wisconsin but everyone on board survived. Above, a piece of the wrecked lead airplane.

Thankfully, all of the jumpers in the lead plane were getting ready to exit the plane anyway.



'We were just kind of lucky that we were at the point where we were out of the airplane,' Mr Robinson told the Duluth News Tribune. 'If we'd been back in the rear of the airplane when they collided it might have been a little bit different.'



Both wings came off the lead plane in the collision and the pilot had to abandon the plane using a parachute on board.



Lucky: Skydiving instructor Mike Robinson was on the lead plane when the tracking plane collided with it. Thankfully, everyone was getting ready to jump out of the plane anyway

The pilot of the tracking plane was able to land it safely.

Once out of the plane, the parachuters had to carefully maneuver their chutes to stay out of the path of raining debris.



'We're in free fall, so we're falling about 120 miles miles an hour vertically down,' Mr Robinson said. 'But then we open our parachutes, and now all of a sudden they're falling faster than we are...Fortunately, eveybody kept it together so they just avoided (the debris).'



All 11 on board the two planes survived the collision. The only person injured was the pilot of the lead plane, who was taken to the hospital for minor injuries.

Split apart: Both wings of the lead plane became detached and Robinson said he watched it crash to the ground in three pieces

Falling pieces: Several people in the Superior area reported seeing the plane falling to the ground but no one was injured by the debris

'He may need some stitches, but he's not seriously hurt,' Mr Robinson said.



Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured by the falling wreckage - but plenty saw them crash to the ground.



Mike Plaunt lives in the area and often hears and sees the skydivers, but he noticed something was off about yesterday's jump.



'I went outside and looked and could see parachuters and a drop plane, and then there was something spiraling down. I couldn't identify what it was..it had a trail of smoke and I had never seen that before,' he said.



Happy to be alive: Two people hug after all 11 aboard the two planes landed safely Quick thinking: The pilot of the tracking plane was able to land it safely, but the lead plane was not so lucky. It crashed to the ground in several piece. The pilot of that airplane escaped by parachute as well

While Mr Robinson still doesn't know why exactly the two planes collided, he believes the lead plane may have created unstable air for the tracking plane.



The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash today.



It's still uncertain what will happen to the skydiving company, since they only owned the two planes. But it is the end of their season anyway.

Mr Robinson says the crash yesterday happened during the fourth jump of his day, and that he's done over 900 jumps in his lifetime.



'I'll remember this one more than most,' he told NBC News.