# Incident 20040609012489I: Cessna 208, Canon City, CO, June 9, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 9, 2004, 17:45 local time
- Place: Canon City, CO
- Airport: Fremont County Airport
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 38.4286° N, 105.1069° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FREMONT COUNTY (1V6), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.4286&lon=-105.1069&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9652F, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9652F) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 208 (registry code 2073702, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-208) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A (registry code 52043, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-60a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 208
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 1,158 total, 200 in this make and model, 150 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040609012489I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ACCORDING TO THE PILOT, N9652F DEPARTED THE FREMONT COUNTY AIRPORT (1V6) AT APPROXIMATELY 1730 MDT WITH A LOAD OF APPROXIMATELY 10 SKY DIVERS. THE AIRCRAFT CLIMBED TO 17,500 MSL AT WHICH TIME THE SKYDIVERS DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT. THE PHOTOGRAPHER^PRIVACY DATA O^WAS PHOTOGRAPHING 4 TANDEM PARACHUTISTS. ACCORDING TO ^PRIVACY DATA OM^ WITNESS AND OWNER OF SKYDIVE THE ROCKIES, AT BETWEEN 100 AND 300 FEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER MADE A HARD TURN AND TWISTED HIS LINES. HE CUT AWAY THE MAIN CHUTE AND ATTEMPTED TO DEPLOY HIS RESERVE. ACCORDING TO THE FREMONT COUNTY S.O. REPORT THE BODY WAS FOUND 75 FEET EAST OF BUILDING 11 ON THE AIRPORT WITH HIS RESERVE CHUTE PARTIALLY DEPLOYED (ABOUT 30 FEET). THE RESERVE PARACHUTE A PR193, SN# PR193-030678, MFGR'D BY PERFORMANCE RESPONSE WAS PACKED BY SENIOR PARACHUTE RIGGER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ON 4/8/04. ACCORDING TO ^PRIVACY DA^ THE AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT DEVICE INSTALLED ON THE RESERVE CHUTE A CYPRES BY SSK COULD NOT HAVE INFLATED THE RESERVE UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS. ACCORDING TO THE USPA, ^PRIVACY DA^ HELD BOTH AN A AND D LICENSE WITH USPA.   PARACHUTE INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N9652F (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20260228001219I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20260228001219I), Feb 28, 2026: Cessna 208 (N9652F), Whiteville, TN, No damage, 1 fatal. On February 28, 2026, at approximately 1606 hours, a routine sport parachuting operation was conducted involving five skydivers exiting an aircraft from an…

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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