# Incident 20080705839549I: Elizabethtown, KY, July 5, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 5, 2008, 20:20 local time
- Place: Elizabethtown, KY
- Airport: Addington Field
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 37.6860° N, 85.9250° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ADDINGTON FLD (EKX), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6860&lon=-85.9250&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 0 total, 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080705839549I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON JULY 5, 2008 SPORT PARACHUTE OPERATIONS WERE BEING CONDUCTED AT ADDINGTON FIELD, (EKX), ELIZABETHTOWN, KY AT 2020Z, PARACHUTITST ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WAS FATALLY INJURED.  WITNESSED TO THE EVENT STATE THAT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OPENED THE CHUTE AT ESTIMATED 2500 FEET AGL.  THE CHUTE DEPLOYED NORMALLY.  AT ESTIMATED 1000 FEET AGL, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ENTERED THE DOWNWING APPROACH FOR THE LANDING ZONE.  ACCORDING TO WITNESSES IT APPEARED AT THAT TIME THAT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^MR. ROBARDS^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

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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