Jumping Out of a Plane

JOHN: I was a kid, 19, in the 82nd Airborne. There were a lot of areas to jump. You call them drop zones. Pilot knows the drop zones. 20 men, jump out the plane. For some reason, the pilot turned the plane, tilted it, & 3 or 4 men killed. They jumped out... the pilot flew in between them & hit them & killed them. Flew right in the middle of them... BOOM. They called it an "accident," but it was pilot error. He missed me by a couple of hundred feet.