# Incident 20000228029669I: Eloy, AZ, February 28, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 28, 2000, 11:05 local time
- Place: Eloy, AZ
- Airport: Eloy Municipal Airport
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 32.8067° N, 111.5866° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ELOY MUNI (E60), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.8067&lon=-111.5866&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (not matched to a registry record)
- Fatal injuries: 1
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000228029669I

## Narrative

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

(-23)^PRIVACY DATA ^JUMPED FROM AN AIRCRAFT. DURING DESCENT, HE PULLED HIS  MAIN PARACHUTE RIPCORD.  THE PARACHUTE STREAMED OUT.  HE ATTEMPED TO CUT AWAY FROM HIS MAIN PARACHUTE AND PULLED HIS RESERVE.  IT BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE MAIN WHICH HAD NOT RELEASED.  HE IMPACTED THE GROUND AND DIED FROM IMPACT.  EXAMINATION OF THE MAIN PARACHUTE SHOWED THAT IT WAS STILL ATTACHED BY THE RAISERS/HARNESS DUE TO A NO.8 A/B LINE SET HAVING BEEN SNAGGED THE GROMMET ON THE PACK TRAY CLOSING LOOP TAB.  FURTHER INSPECTION OF ALL GROMMETS IN THE HARNESS AND CONTAINER SYSTEM WERE PROPERLY SET.  CAUSE WAS INTERACTION OF A VERY SMALL (THIN) MICROLINE (500LB SPECTRA) AND THE GROMMET IN THE MAIN PACK CLOSURE TAB.  THIS CAUSED THE INITIAL MALFUNCTION AND PREVENTED A RELEASE OF THE MAIN CANOPY ENTANGLING THE RESERVE PARACHUTE.  APF SERVICE BULLETIN NO.APF981001-A WAS ISSUED BY THE AUSTRALIAN PARACHUTE FEDERATION THAT ADDRESSES THIS GROMMET/LINE PROBLEM.  THE U.S. PARACHUTE FERDERATION SHOULD INCORPORATE THE SAME.

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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