# Incident 20060129001449I: Osage City, KS, January 29, 2006

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 29, 2006, 14:30 local time
- Place: Osage City, KS
- Airport: Osage City Municipal Airport
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 38.6335° N, 95.8018° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at OSAGE CITY MUNI (53K), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6335&lon=-95.8018&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (not matched to a registry record)
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060129001449I

## Narrative

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

(-23) THIS JUMP OCCURRED EARLY AFTERNOON ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2006. THE WINDS WERE FROM THE WEST, STRONGER AT ALTITUDE, BUT ABOUT 7 TO 20 MPH ON THE GROUND. BECAUSE OF STRONGER UPPERS, THE JUMPER FOUND IT NOT POSSIBLE TO LAND IN THE REGULAR LANDING AREA. HE CHOSE TO LAND JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RUNWAY IN A FIELD EAST OF THE DROP ZONE. HOWEVER, HE WAS DETERMINING HIS LANDING DIRECTION ACCORDING TO THE WINDSOCK THAT WAS ABOUT 250 YARDS AWAY, AND FACED WEST FOR LANDING, ALTHOUGH HIS CANOPY WAS BEING PUSHED FROM HIS LEFT, A STRONGER SOUTH WIND IN THE FIELD HE CHOSE. HE WAS CRABBING ON FINAL APPROACH, AND DID NOT FLARE PAST HIS SHOULDERS FOR LANDING. HENCE, THE CANOPY DID NOT SLOW ITS DESCENT OR FORWARD SPEED WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND WHICH CAUSED HIM TO TIME HIS FLARE INCORRECTLY. ALTHOUGH HE CHOSE CORRECTLY TO LAND IN A SAFE, ALTERNATE LANDING AREA, HE FAILED TO USE HIS OWN PERCEPTION OF HIS DIRECTION UNDER CANOPY, INSTEAD OF A WIND SOCK THAT INDICATED SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT HE WAS EXPERIENCING. JUMPER NAME: ^PRIVACY DA^, 120 JUMPS WITH A USPA A LICENSE, NO CLUB AFFILIATION, MAIN PARACHUTE AERODYNE TRIATHALON, PACKED JUST BEFORE THE JUMP BY JUMPER. RESERVE NOT USED PACKED 15 JAN 2006.

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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