Just what caused a skydiving plane carrying 17 passengers to flip over in a vineyard remains under investigation in San Joaquin County.
No passengers were injured.
The single-engine plane experienced trouble shortly after taking off from the Parachute Center skydiving school north of Lodi, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said in a statement.
The pilot tried returning the Cessna 208 to the airport, Gregor said.
But William Dause, who operates the skydiving center, says the plane flipped over when it clipped a grapevine wire on approach.
The pilot suffered a "minor injury," according Gregor.
A skydiving center official described the injury as a bloody nose.
The crash occurred Thursday afternoon in a field just east of Highway 99 between Galt and Lodi, the newspaper reported.