GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Two small airplanes collided in the sky above Colorado Wednesday and all six people involved lived to tell the tale, authorities said.
The midair accident that occurred 15 miles southeast of Grand Junction involved a Mesa County Sheriff's Office plane carrying four people, including two prisoners, and two men in a second aircraft, The Denver Post reported.
"It's very miraculous," Barbara Chappell, an assistant at the Mesa County Sheriff's Office, told the Post. "There were no injuries."
The sheriff's plane flew back to the Grand Junction Regional Airport, while the second aircraft landed upside down in a field 14 miles southeast of the airport, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Weather conditions were good at the time and officials hadn't given a cause for the accident.
"All of a sudden, there was a plane right in front of us," John Haefeli, who was in the second plane being flown by his son, Tom Haefeli of Del Norte, told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
He said his son tried to turn the plane's nose down but the sheriff's plane sheared off a section of their tail.
"We thought, 'We're not going to make it,' " he told the Sentinel.
