# Incident 20020824023919I: Cessna 208, Trenton, TX, August 24, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 24, 2002, 19:55 local time
- Place: Trenton, TX
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 33.4263° N, 96.3446° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Trenton, TX, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.4263&lon=-96.3446&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9421F, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9421F) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 208 (registry code 2073702, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-208) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney PT6A series (registry code 52032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-pt6a-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 208
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 2
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020824023919I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON AUGUST 24, 2002, N4921F, A CESSNA 208 CARAVAN OPERATED BY SKYDIVE DALLAS AND PILOTED BY EDDIE BEAVER, DEPARTED TRI-COUNTY AIRPORT (48TX) WITH A LOAD OF PARACHUTIST FOR THE LAST JUMP OF THE DAY. THE AIRCRAFT CLIMBED TO 13,400 FEET MSL. AT APPROXIMATELY 1955 CDT, BRADFORD TODD WALK AND JASON DAVID FITZSIMMONS JUMPED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM THE AIRCRAFT. FITZSIMMONS WAS WEARING A HELMET WITH AN ATTACHED VIDEO CAMERA AND WAS RECORDING THE FLIGHT OF WALK. THE RECORDING PROVIDED GOOD EVIDENCE OF THE EVENTS. WALK WAS NOT WEARING ANY PROTECTIVE HEAD GEAR. REVIEW OF THE VIDEO SHOWS BOTH PARACHUTISTS MAIN CHUTES WERE DEPLOYED AND FUNCTIONING NORMALLY. THE VIDEO SHOWED WALK'S FLIGHT CONSISTED OF MULTIPLE SPIRAL MANEUVERS. THE LAST SPIRAL MANEUVER RESULTED IN A BODY-TO-BODY IMPACT. AT THAT POINT THE VIDEO RECORDING STOPPED. WITNESSES INDICATED THAT UPON IMPACT THE TWO CHUTES BECAME ENTANGLED. WITNESSES STATED THAT THE HELMET FITZSIMMONS WAS WEARING WAS LOCATED SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET FROM THE BODIES INDICATING IT WAS KNOCKED OFF IN FLIGHT. NEITHER RESERVE CHUTE WAS DEPLOYED. MR. WALK AND MR. FITZSIMMONS SUSTAINED FATAL INJURIES. SEE ATTACHED SHEET.

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.