--- title: Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute description: Neither the pilot nor the parachutist were seriously injured in the incredible near-miss in Polk County, Fla. canonical: https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/ author: Joseph C. Lin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-09T20:37:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:37.531Z og:title: Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute og:description: Neither the pilot nor the parachutist were seriously injured in the incredible near-miss in Polk County, Fla. og:url: https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute twitter:description: Neither the pilot nor the parachutist were seriously injured in the incredible near-miss in Polk County, Fla. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute by [Joseph C. Lin](https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Mar 9, 2014 8:37 PM UTC by [Joseph C. Lin](https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Mar 9, 2014 8:37 PM UTC Courtesy of Polk County Sheriff’s Office; GIF by Joseph C. Lin—TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/"},"headline":"Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute","datePublished":"2014-03-09T20:37:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:37.531Z","description":"Miraculously, nobody was injured when a single-engine Cessna piloted by an 87-year-old airman flew into a landing skydiver's parachute while practicing touch-and-goes at an airfield near Tampa, Florida","url":"https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","aircraft"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph C. Lin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/17529/airplane-skydiver-parachute/","name":"Watch An Airplane Collide With A Skydiver's Parachute"}}]}] ```