# Accident 20080921849239A: Orange, VA, September 21, 2008

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 21, 2008, 13:00 local time
- Place: Orange, VA
- Airport: Orange County
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Parachute Jumping
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 38.2472° N, 78.0456° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ORANGE COUNTY (OMH), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.2472&lon=-78.0456&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (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/20080921849239A

## Narrative

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

(-23) ACCORDING TO WITNESS STATEMENTS ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ AND ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WERE PARTICIPATING IN RECREATIONAL SKYDIVING IN ORANGE, VIRGINIA WITH SKYDIVE ORANGE, A COMMERCIAL SKYDIVING CONCERN.  WHEN AT APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET AGL THE PARACHUTIST COLLIDED WITH ONE ANOTHER, BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE PARACHUTES AND SPIRALED TO THE GROUND CAUSING ONE FATALITY AND ONE SERIOUS INJURY.  INFORMATION FROM THE COMMERICAL CONCERN INDICATED THAT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ HAD COMPLETED APPROXIMATELY 1000 JUMPS.  HIS MAIN CANOPY AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT WAS IDENTIFIED AS A PERFORMANCE DESIGN, KATANA 120 ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ RESERVE PARACHUTE WAS A PERFORMANCE DESIGN PD176R WITH A PACK DATE OF 06/26/2008.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WAS A STUDENT WITH SKYDIVE ORANGE WITH APPROXIMATELY 20 JUMPS.  HIS MAIN CANOPY AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT WAS A NAVIGATOR 260.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ RESERVE PARACHUTE WAS A PRECISION DESIGN RAVEN IV WITH A PACK DATE OF 08/28/2008.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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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