# Incident 20040706025649I: Cessna 208B, Napoleon, MI, July 6, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 6, 2004, 13:06 local time
- Place: Napoleon, MI
- Airport: Napoleon Airport
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 42.1710° N, 84.2593° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at NAPOLEON (3NP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.1710&lon=-84.2593&mi=10
- Aircraft: N81U (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 208B
- Fatal injuries: 1
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040706025649I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ACCORDING TO WITNESS STATEMENTS ON THE GROUND AS WELL AS IN THE AIR. ^PRIVACY DATA OMIT^ WAS MAKING HIS 6TH JUMP OF THE DAY. ^PRIVACY DA^ ENTERED INTO A RADICAL LEFT TURN AS HE WAS TURNING TO BASE FINAL. AT APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET THE RIGHT TWO CELLS OF HIS CANOPY COLLAPSED CAUSING LINE TWIST AND RESULTING IN AN UNCONTROLLABLE RIGHT SPIRALING TURN. THE CANOPY REINFLATED AT ABOUT 75 FEET, BUT DIDN'T ALLOW FOR ENOUGH TIME TO STOP THE SPIN. ANOTHER WITNESS STATED THAT IT APPEARED THAT ^PRIVACY DA^ OVERSHOT HIS TURN AND ABRUPTLY CORRECTED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, WHICH COULD HAVE CAUSED THE CELLS IN THE CANOPY TO COLLAPSE. A POST-JUMP INSPECTION OF THE EQUIPMENT REVEALED NO DAMAGE OR ABNORMALITIES. ACCORDING TO WITNESS STATEMENT ^PRIVACY DA^ WAS A MEMBER OF THE US PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION (D16617). HIS JUMP LICENSE 82960 WAS VALID THROUGH 5/31/05. ^PRIVACY DA^ WAS JUMPING WITH THE NEW NAPOLEON SKY DIVING CENTER AND HAD AMASSED MORE THAN 1100 JUMPS. ^PRIVACY DA^ RESERVE PARACHUTE WAS PACKED ON 4/17/04 B A ^PRIVACY DATA OMITT^ A CERTIFICATED PARACHUTE RIGGER #374983648. PARACHUTE INCIDENT

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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