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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 2105 · Homestead, FL · September 16, 1979

Date
September 16, 1979 · 19:00 local
Place
Homestead, FL
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N8244F
Reported as
Cessna 2105
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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 chute malfunctioned. Reserve chute deployed at low altitude had insufficent time to open.

As the FAA filed it

MAIN CHUTE MALFUNCTIONED. RESERVE CHUTE DEPLOYED AT LOW ALTITUDE HAD INSUFFICENT TIME TO OPEN.

Other reports on N8244F · 1

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