What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Main chute did not deploy. Fatality.
As the FAA filed it
MAIN CHUTE DID NOT DEPLOY. FATALITY.
FAA incident report · Doug C47 · Pope Valley, CA · August 18, 1978
- Date
- August 18, 1978 · 18:30 local
- Place
- Pope Valley, CA
- Phase of flight
- Normal Cruise
- Operating rules
- Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Aircraft
- N4991E
- Reported as
- Doug C47
- People aboard
- 30
- Fatal injuries
- 1
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 0 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.