captures the action. an excited jerome gives the thumbs-up. 13,000 feet in the air, jerome leaps from the plane and begins his 120-mile-an-hour plunge to earth. >> my parachute is generally open feeling smoothly and it is quite comfortable. i was flying my canopy downwind at the time. >> but moments later something goes wrong. >> when i felt a thump, i was stunned, to that point i knew i had been involved in a collision with another parachutist. >> another jumper who has just released his parachute crashes into jerome. >> i looked and i had purple around my face. my parachute is black and white, so i knew it wasn't my parachute. >> a bystander captures this on amateur video. moments after the two men collide, they are 1,500 feet above the ground and jerome is