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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 182B · Forest City, IA · July 13, 1988

Date
July 13, 1988 · 18:36 local
Place
Forest City, IA
Airport
Forest City Municipal
Phase of flight
Parachute Jumping
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N8417T
Reported as
Cessna 182B
People aboard
2
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.

Main chute and reserve chute both malfunctioned and jumper waited too long to cut away main canopy.

As the FAA filed it

MAIN CHUTE AND RESERVE CHUTE BOTH MALFUNCTIONED AND JUMPER WAITED TOO LONG TO CUT AWAY MAIN CANOPY.