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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 180 · Craigville, IN · July 5, 1978

Date
July 5, 1978 · 18:10 local
Place
Craigville, IN
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N1684C
Reported as
Cessna 180
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
750 total275 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Jumper delayed chute deployment until just before ground contact. Jump was to be a 30 second delay free fall.

As the FAA filed it

JUMPER DELAYED CHUTE DEPLOYMENT UNTIL JUST BEFORE GROUND CONTACT. JUMP WAS TO BE A 30 SECOND DELAY FREE FALL.

Other reports on N1684C · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.