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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC3 · Perris Valley, CA · August 16, 1981

Date
August 16, 1981 · 12:15 local
Place
Perris Valley, CA
Airport
Perris Valley
Phase of flight
Formation Flying
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
NR137
Reported as
Doug DC3
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.

Fatality. Parachutist making static jump held pilot chute which foulded reservechute. Main chute T-10, reserve T-7A

As the FAA filed it

FATALITY. PARACHUTIST MAKING STATIC JUMP HELD PILOT CHUTE WHICH FOULDED RESERVECHUTE. MAIN CHUTE T-10, RESERVE T-7A