# Incident 19970610026999I: St Frances, MN, June 10, 1997

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 10, 1997, 09:30 local time
- Place: St Frances, MN
- Airport: Becker Personal Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Touch And Go Landing
- Operating rules: Ultralight vehicle (Part 103)
- Location: 45.4027° N, 93.3894° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Becker Personal Airport, closed, within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=45.4027&lon=-93.3894&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19970610026999I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) MR. SHANKS WAS PRACTICING TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS IN HIS 2 PLACE, POWERED PARACHUTE. GROUND WITNESSES STATED HE DRIFTED LEFT AFTER ADDING POWER AFTER HIS LAST LANDING. THE PARACHUTE THEN ENDED UP SUSPENDED FROM POWER LINES, WITH MR. SHANKS BEING UNCONSCIOUS. MR. SHANKS STATED THE REASON HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS WAS DUE TO LACK OF FOOD AND FLUIDS PRIOR TO MANY TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS. *VAGAL RESPONSE ACCORDING TO HIS PHYSICIAN, DR. JACOBS, IN MONTICELLO, MN. *I DID NOT PERSONALLY TALK TO DR. JACOBS OF MONTICELLO, MN.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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