Video shows skydivers scramble as plane stalls mid-air

Footage captured by a diver shows the moment an aircraft lost control during a routine skydive and plummeted to the ground before making a last-minute safe landing in South Africa.
2:16 | 11/05/21

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The video of formation skydivers set to jump when their plane stalled, spun out of control with more skydivers inside the plane. Gio Benitez has the details on how they made a safe landing, good morning, gio. Reporter: You know I love a good survival story and the video from this is heart stopping. Skydivers are supposed to see the plane flying above them after they fall, well, this time they saw it below them and it was going down. A routine sky dive turned into a harrowing ordeal as a plane loses control midjump. It all began 16,000 feet up in the air when these skydivers opened their jump door preparing to make the ultimate leap. But suddenly the plane starts to stall just as the first group lets go of the aircraft. It begins descending quickly towards the ground. One other jumper scrambles to get out leaving four jumpers still inside with a pilot. As it falls the plane narrowly missing the first group of jumpers. One of those jumpers was Bernard who took the death-defying video and later wrote, the moment was surreal and I could not believe what I was seeing. Everything happened in slow motion, and I remember thinking, am I really seeing the plane spinning nose down next to us? The video shows him scrambling to get bearings in the air looking for his team finding them practicing their preplanned formations. Miraculously the plane made a safe landing and no one was hurt. Just an incredible pilot right there. Able to get this plane flying again as it fell and, guys, I don't know about you but everyone is telling me I need to sky dive, the transportation correspondent, of course, he's got to jump. Let me tell you something, did you see that video right there? Are we good now? We're good? You haven't done a sky dive? Reporter: I have not. I have not and, George, after this it's not going to happen. You did this to yourself. Gio, you could look at it another way, if you did sky dive that's one way to get you out of the plane. Reporter: Well, if it's falling I want to sky dive. I'm out. Exactly. That's how to get you out. Looked like a Tom Cruise movie. Looked like "Mission: Impossible." We are going to see gio

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