CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Two skydivers are “OK” after they collided midair Tuesday and one of them was knocked unconscious in rural Ottawa.
The Ottawa Fire Department responded about 11:05 a.m. to a call of a midair collision of skydivers at Skydive Chicago in the 3000 block of East 1969th Road, the fire department said in a statement.
A spokesperson for Skydive Chicago said one of the licensed skydivers was knocked unconscious in the collision. The person’s “automatic activation device” deployed the parachute and the person landed safely, according to the spokesperson, who said the skydivers were both “OK.”
One skydiver landed at the airport at Skydive Chicago, while the other landed in the Fox River north of Dayton Dam, the department said. Both were taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Ottawa. Their conditions were not immediately released.
Ottawa is about 70 miles west of Chicago.