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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 182A · Socastee, SC · May 18, 1993

Date
May 18, 1993 · 11:00 local
Place
Socastee, SC
Phase of flight
Parachute Jumping
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N4997D
Reported as
Cessna 182A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
2
Pilot’s flight hours
1,938 total300 in this make and model70 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.

On tandem jump main chute opened prematurely. Out of sequence deployment entangled the drogue bridle with lines.

As the FAA filed it

ON TANDEM JUMP MAIN CHUTE OPENED PREMATURELY. OUT OF SEQUENCE DEPLOYMENT ENTANGLED THE DROGUE BRIDLE WITH LINES.