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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 182A · Vincent, AL · August 26, 1979

Date
August 26, 1979 · 15:00 local
Place
Vincent, AL
Airport
Bates
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4857D
Reported as
Cessna 182A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,085 total328 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.

Skydivers pilot chute struck stabilizer of aircraft.

As the FAA filed it

SKYDIVERS PILOT CHUTE STRUCK STABILIZER OF AIRCRAFT.