19790429025339I

Incident

FAA incident report · Beech D18S · Chula Vista, CA · April 29, 1979

Date
April 29, 1979 · 16:47 local
Place
Chula Vista, CA
Airport
Borderland Air Sp
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N5804C
Reported as
Beech D18S
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
2,845 total530 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.

After relative maneuver, one jumper fell into anothers camopy, collapsed it. One jumper was killed.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER RELATIVE MANEUVER, ONE JUMPER FELL INTO ANOTHERS CAMOPY, COLLAPSED IT. ONE JUMPER WAS KILLED.