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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 182C · Gainesville, TX · September 19, 1988

Date
September 19, 1988 · 17:52 local
Place
Gainesville, TX
Phase of flight
Parachute Jumping
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N8641T
Reported as
Cessna 182C
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
7,500 total7,300 in this make and model120 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.

Chutist waited until too close to ground to deploy chute. Could not get air under chute and collided with ground.

As the FAA filed it

CHUTIST WAITED UNTIL TOO CLOSE TO GROUND TO DEPLOY CHUTE. COULD NOT GET AIR UNDER CHUTE AND COLLIDED WITH GROUND.

Other reports on N8641T · 1

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