# Incident 20030110001419I: Pilats PC6B1AH2, Cedartown, GA, January 10, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 10, 2003, 17:00 local time
- Place: Cedartown, GA
- Airport: Cornelius-Moore Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.0232° N, 85.2484° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Cedartown, GA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.0232&lon=-85.2484&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3608R (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PILATS PC6B1AH2
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 3,342 total, 91 in this make and model, 131 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030110001419I

## Narrative

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

(-23) INCIDENT OCCURRED ON 1-10-2003 AT APPROXIMATELY 1700 LOCAL TIME, IN CEDARTOWN, GA. {FLIGHT ORIGINATED AND ENDED AT CORNELIUS MOORE AIRPORT (4A4)} A PC-6 (PILATUS PORTER) AIRCRAFT, N3608R LEASED BY THE ATLANTA SKYDIVING CENTER, CARRYING 4 SKYDIVERS AND ONE PILOT, WAS INVOLVED IN AN INCIDENT. DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS. PILOT SHAWN KEGLEY WAS FLYING ACFT N3608R AT APPRX. 14,000 FT AT AN AIRSPEED OF 55 KNOTS WHEN ALL FOUR SKYDIVERS EXITED THE PLANE THROUGH THE DOOR ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE PILOT STATES HIS SLOW AIRSPEED CREATED AN AERODYNAMIC STALL, CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO DROP TO THE RIGHT, STRIKING ONE OF THE SKYDIVERS (NATHAN GILBERT) ALONG THE RIGHT FUSELAGE. THIS OCCURRED APPRX 3 SECONDS FOLLOWING THE JUMP. CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT WAS QUICKLY REGAINED AND BOTH THE AIRCRAFT AND ALL SKYDIVERS LANDED SAFELY MINUTES LATER. WITNESS STATEMENTS, SHOW MR. GILBERT'S ONL INJURIES WERE A BRUISED AND SCRAPED FOREARM. THE AIRCRAFT, SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE, WHICH INCLUDED DENTS TO THREE SKINS ON THE RIGHT FUSELAGE. SKINS AND SUPPORT STRINGERS R&R.

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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