# Incident 19791123046899I: Cessna 182, Beaumont, TX, November 23, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 23, 1979, 10:00 local time
- Place: Beaumont, TX
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 30.0860° N, 94.1018° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Beaumont, TX, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.0860&lon=-94.1018&mi=10
- Aircraft: N896X (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 900 total, 250 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19791123046899I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

CHUTE CAUGHT ON AIRCRAFT FUEL SELECTOR VALVE. DEPLOYED, PULLED CHUTIST OUT. STRUCK AIRCRFT, LANDED SAFELY.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.