Two men were hurt Saturday morning when a plane collided with the parachute of a skydiver in Mulberry.
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; that's when a plane touches down briefly then takes off again.
During his third pass, the passenger side wing of his plane clipped a skydiver's parachute, cutting the chute and tossing the skydiver into the air about 75-feet above the ground.
The skydiver, 49-year-old John Frost of Gainesville, was flung to the earth. The plane nose-dived into the ground.
Both men were taken to the hospital. Neither was seriously injured.
