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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech 65-A90 · Lake Wales, FL · April 5, 1997

Date
April 5, 1997 · 12:10 local
Place
Lake Wales, FL
Airport
Lake Wales Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Parachute Jumping
Operating rules
Parachute jumping (Part 105)
Aircraft
N502W
Reported as
Beech 65A90
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
2,700 total150 in this make and model150 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.

Narrative: the skydiver (byran muiselaor) landed downwind and did not flare his chute to slow down. He hit the ground at full speed and was fataly injured.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: THE SKYDIVER (BYRAN MUISELAOR) LANDED DOWNWIND AND DID NOT FLARE HIS CHUTE TO SLOW DOWN. HE HIT THE GROUND AT FULL SPEED AND WAS FATALY INJURED.

Other reports on N502W · 2

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