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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 180 · Xenia, OH · August 18, 1978

Date
August 18, 1978 · 19:30 local
Place
Xenia, OH
Airport
Port
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N40GC
Reported as
Cessna 180
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
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.

What happened

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

Injury to parachute jumper due to mae west malfunction. Hands and arms overhead tangled in shroud lines.

As the FAA filed it

INJURY TO PARACHUTE JUMPER DUE TO MAE WEST MALFUNCTION. HANDS AND ARMS OVERHEAD TANGLED IN SHROUD LINES.