# Incident 20000930031779I: Mount Vernon, MO, September 30, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 30, 2000, 09:20 local time
- Place: Mount Vernon, MO
- Airport: Mount Vernon Municipal Airport
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 37.0684° N, 93.8849° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MOUNT VERNON MUNI (2MO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.0684&lon=-93.8849&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/20000930031779I

## Narrative

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

(-23)MCI-FSDO INCIDENT NUMBER CE2000IGA0092. ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2000, ^PRIVACY DATA O^ WAS FATALLY INJURED FROM IMPACT WITH THE GROUND WHILE PARTICIPATING IN COLUNTARY SPORT PARACHUTE ACTIVITY.  THE DECEASED HAD RECORDED 209 JUMPS DURING 4 YEARS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE SPORT.  THE DECEASED WAS AFFILIATED WITH FREE-FALL EXPRESS SKYDIVING CLUB, MT. VERON, MO.  THE MAIN CANOPY WAS A PERFROMANCE DESIGNS, SABRE 170, WITHA THROW OUT DEPLOYMENT CHUTE, UTILIZING A MIRAGE G11 RTS-2 CONTAINER.  THE RESERVE CANOPY WAS A PREXCISION, RAVEN, M150 THAT HAD BEEN PACKED BY SENIOR RIGGER ^PRIVACY DAT^ ON 06/16/00 AS INDICATED ON THE PACKING CARD, WITHIN THE 120 DAYS REQUIRED BY FAR 105.  EXAMINATION OF EQUIPMENT WAS PERFORMED BY ^PRIVACY DATA O^, USPA SAFETY ADVISOR.

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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