# Incident 20040627024669I: Cessna 182E, Belen, NM, June 27, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 27, 2004, 11:15 local time
- Place: Belen, NM
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 34.7666° N, 106.8085° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Belen, NM, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.7666&lon=-106.8085&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9342X (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182E
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040627024669I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON JUNE 27, 2004, AT APPROXIMATELY 1100 MDT, MR. HARVEY E. BUSKIRK, JR. WAS ACTING AS A PARACHUTE INSTRUCTOR WITH SKYDIVE NEW MEXICO. MR. BUSKIRK AND HIS STUDENT EXITED THE AIRCRAFT AT 10,000 AGL AND BEGAN WORKING ON DOCKING PROCEDURES. AT 5,000 FEET, THEY SEPARATED AND DEPLOYED THEIR MAIN PARACHUTES. THE STUDENT NOTICED THAT MR. BUSKIRK WAS SPIRALING DOWN, BUT THOUGHT THAT SINCE HE WAS SO EXPERIENCED THAT HE WAS JUST LOSING ALTITUDE FASTER TO LAND. WHEN THE STUDENT NOTICED MR. BUSKIRK AGAIN, HE SAW THAT MR. BUSKIRK'S ARMS WERE AT HIS SIDE AND THAT HIS HEAD WAS LAID BACK. AFTER MR. BUSKIRK IMPACTED THE GROUND, THE STUDENT RAN TO MR. BUSKIRK AND TRIED TO RENDER CPR WITH NO REACTION. FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PARMEDICS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE PRONOUNCING MR. BUSKIRK DECEASED. THERE WERE THREE JUMPERS ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT BESIDES MR. BUSKIRK. ALL WITNESSES SAID THAT MR. BUSKIRK WAS ACTING AND BEHAVING NORMALLY DURING THE ASCENT.

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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