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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Chesapeake City, MD · September 2, 1978

Date
September 2, 1978 · 19:00 local
Place
Chesapeake City, MD
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N1543Y
Reported as
Cessna 172
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
425 total375 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.

Parachute failed to fully open, skydiver injured.

As the FAA filed it

PARACHUTE FAILED TO FULLY OPEN, SKYDIVER INJURED.

Other reports on N1543Y · 3

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