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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172F · Sayre, NY · November 8, 1980

Date
November 8, 1980 · 14:55 local
Place
Sayre, NY
Airport
Blue Swan
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5567R
Reported as
Cessna 172F
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
315 total200 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 chute failed to open resulting in fatality.

As the FAA filed it

SKYDIVERS CHUTE FAILED TO OPEN RESULTING IN FATALITY.