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New Zealand skydiving plane crash[edit]
A New Zealand skydiving plane crash, with 13 passengers on board, managed to parachute to safety after the aircraft's engine failed. The pilot of Skydive Taupo, six passengers and six crew members all survived with only significant injuries. The plane's passengers were all overseas tourists who had each been assigned an instructor for a tandem dive at planned heights of 12,000 feet and some at 15,000 feet for others. The instructors were already wearing parachutes but each needed to hastily clip their passenger's harness with four attachments before leaping from the plane. He said the pilot was also wearing a parachute, standard procedure in skydiving operations, and waited to jump until he knew everybody else was safely off the plane.
Remaining calm from practicing emergency drills prior the flight, everybody managed to maneuver their parachutes over Lake Taupo's water and onto the beach before landing to safety. Transport accident investigators were quick to the crash site to figured out what went wrong. The plane was a New Zealand-built Pacific Aerospace Ltd. P-750 XL.
Below you need two sources to verify the information.
Sources
- Nick Perry. "All 13 on New Zealand skydiving plane leap out before crash" — Yahoo, January 7th, 2015
- Cbsnews. "Lucky escape for 13 people on skydiving plane" — CBSNEWS, January 7th, 2015