Skydiving gone wrong: Two men were hurt Saturday morning (March 8) when the parachute of a skydiver got tangled up in a small Cessna plane in Mulberry, Florida.<br /><br />The Polk County Sheriff's Office says the pilot, 87-year-old Sharon Trembley, a World War II veteran, was doing touch-and-goes in his private Cessna at the South Lakeland Airport when his passenger side wing clipped a skydiver's parachute on the third pass. The plane' swing cut the chute and tossed the skydiver into the air about 75-feet above the ground.<br /><br />The skydiver, 49-year-old John Frost of Gainesville, was thrown down toward the ground while the plane nose-dived.<br /><br />"I thought they were both seriously hurt. We rushed over there," said Paul Fuller, one of Trembly's friends who was also watching from the ground. "He's a pretty good pilot. He's been flying all of his life, probably 60 some-odd years."<br /><br />Both men were taken to the hospital, but thankfully, neither was seriously injured.<br /><br />Frost was treated and released. Trembley was being held for observation.<br /><br />"You always hear the negatives about somebody died or somebody this, that or the other. Both these guys walked away unscathed," Telford said. "A scratch here, a bruise there and I think both are just happy to be here today."<br /><br />The National Traffic and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the accident.
