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Skydiving Plane Crash Injures 4: ‘Never Been That Scared’

Twenty skydivers were onboard the small craft when it crashed in a field in Tennessee.

Four people have been left seriously injured after a plane carrying a group of 20 skydivers crashed in a field in Coffee County, around 60 miles south of Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon. Three people were airlifted to the hospital, with one in critical condition. Other minor injuries were treated by first responders at the scene, city spokesperson Lyle Russell told CNN. Sheila Stone, who has lived across from the local airport for 20 years, told The New York Times she was sitting in her backyard when the plane whizzed past her house at a dangerously low altitude, narrowly missing a large tree before landing in a nearby field. The 57-year-old said she believed one of the craft’s wings may have hit a tree while attempting a landing on the airport’s main runway, causing it to spin out of control. “I’ve never been that scared,” she said. “I have airplanes flying over daily but never that low and close to my house, thinking it’s about to crash in my yard.” Footage of the crash site shows damage to the plane’s tail, which appears to have broken off along with several other parts of the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.