A skydiving attempt in Australia went awry after one person’s parachute snagged on the aircraft’s tail, leaving them suspended 15,000 feet in the air.

The plane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, took off from Tully in northern Queensland on Sept. 20 with a pilot and 17 parachutists on board, who were planning a 16-way formation jump from 15,000 feet (more than 4,500 metres), filmed by a parachuting camera operator, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in an incident report .

Footage from the jump, captured by a camera mounted on the plane’s fuselage, shows the first skydiver and the camera operator climbing out of the roller door and the handle for the diver’s reserve parachute snagging on the wing flap, inadvertently deploying their chute.

The parachute drags the skydiver backwards, se

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