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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna STC182 · Mead, WA · September 27, 1987

Date
September 27, 1987 · 11:15 local
Place
Mead, WA
Phase of flight
Parachute Jumping
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N5048D
Reported as
Cessna STC182
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
1

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.

Free fall chutists collided rendering both unconscious. Automatic activation device deployed chute on one jumper.

As the FAA filed it

FREE FALL CHUTISTS COLLIDED RENDERING BOTH UNCONSCIOUS. AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION DEVICE DEPLOYED CHUTE ON ONE JUMPER.

Other reports on N5048D · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.