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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Taunton, MA · July 9, 1983

Date
July 9, 1983 · 15:57 local
Place
Taunton, MA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N5041A
Reported as
Cessna 172
Reported engine
Continental O300A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 in this make and model25 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.

Jumper fatally injured when main chute deployed normally. Did not fully open. Resulted in a high speed streamer.

As the FAA filed it

JUMPER FATALLY INJURED WHEN MAIN CHUTE DEPLOYED NORMALLY. DID NOT FULLY OPEN. RESULTED IN A HIGH SPEED STREAMER.