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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 182 · Raeford, NC · March 7, 1979

Date
March 7, 1979 · 14:28 local
Place
Raeford, NC
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N5311B
Reported as
Cessna 182
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
2,000 total1,800 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 fatality. Possible medical cause for failure to pull rip cords

As the FAA filed it

PARACHUTE FATALITY. POSSIBLE MEDICAL CAUSE FOR FAILURE TO PULL RIP CORDS