Two skydivers have been winched from thick bushland on a mountain in the Whitunsdays after winds disrupted their tandem jump.
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A man, in his 30s, believed to be a skydiving instructor, and a female tourist, in her 20s, were still harnessed together after they parachuted into scrub on a mountain near Shute Harbour about 10am on Saturday.
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The pilot of their plane called triple zero after the skydivers' landing went awry due to wind gusts and they ended up on the mountain, tangled in trees.
A Mackay-based RACQ CQ Rescue helicopter flew to the scene and prepared to winch the stranded pair after dropping the doctor, paramedic and medical equipment at the nearby Whitsunday Airport, about 1 kilometre away.
The man and woman managed to free themselves from their chutes and walk to a small clearing in the trees.
As the helicopter hovered overhead, a rescue crewman was winched down to secure each patient into an air rescue vest.
![The pair landed in thick bushland on a mountain and it would have been difficult to walk to safety. Photo: RACQ CQ Rescue The pair landed in thick bushland on a mountain and it would have been difficult to walk to safety. Photo: RACQ CQ Rescue](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/554c6652-1032-4e78-be87-0e1e116a2111/r0_0_1024_768_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
They were winched into the helicopter and flown back to the Whitsunday Coast Airport, their original planned landing zone.
The skydive instructor and tourist were uninjured.