# Incident 20050704013779I: California City, CA, July 4, 2005

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 4, 2005, 12:10 local time
- Place: California City, CA
- Airport: California City Municipal Airport
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 35.1512° N, 118.0167° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CALIFORNIA CITY MUNI (L71), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.1512&lon=-118.0167&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (not matched to a registry record)
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20050704013779I

## Narrative

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

(-23) WITNESSES, BOTH ON THE GROUND AND IN THE AIR REPORT THAT THE JUMPER WAS HANGING LIMP IN THE HARNESS, WITH A PARTIALLY INFLATED CANOPY SPIRALLING TOWARD THE GROUND. NO ONE SAW THE JUMPER ATTEMPT TO PERFORM EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED HAD 375 JUMPS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION. HIS MEMBERSHIP NUMBER WAS ^PRIVACY^ THE HARNESS AND CONTAINER WAS MANUFACTURED BY JUMPSHELL, MODEL RACER. THE MAIN CANOPY WAS MANUFACTURED BY PD, MODEL SPECTRE. THIS WAS THE SECOND JUMP ON THIS CANOPY.

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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