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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech C18S · Covington, LA · February 26, 1979

Date
February 26, 1979 · 16:45 local
Place
Covington, LA
Airport
Vincent
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N47GC
Reported as
Beech C18S
People aboard
11
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total250 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.

Main pilot chute, reserve canopy and reserve ripcord entangled.

As the FAA filed it

MAIN PILOT CHUTE, RESERVE CANOPY AND RESERVE RIPCORD ENTANGLED.