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Incident

FAA incident report · Aircraft · Yosemite Natl P, CA · August 4, 1982

Date
August 4, 1982 · 19:30 local
Place
Yosemite Natl P, CA
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
NR263
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.

Jumped off side of a cliff. Parachute kept hitting cliff until it collapsed. No parachute malfunction.

As the FAA filed it

JUMPED OFF SIDE OF A CLIFF. PARACHUTE KEPT HITTING CLIFF UNTIL IT COLLAPSED. NO PARACHUTE MALFUNCTION.