20081220856379I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 182A · Lakeland, FL · December 20, 2008

Date: December 20, 2008 · 14:45 local
Place: Lakeland, FL
Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3854D
Reported as: Cessna 182A
People aboard: 5
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,150 total600 in this make and model100 in the last 90 days

N3854DRegistered now · Cessna 182AS/N 34554 · Built 1957 Airframe modelCessna 182A Engine modelContinental O-470 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) The "jumper" was exiting the aircraft when his reserve pull-cable caught on the aircraft fuselage door-latch receptacle unknown to the jumper, so when the jumper launched, his reserve chute deployed and caught the right elevator and causing the elevator to partially detach. The partially detached elevator was flapping in flight and caused minor damage to the rudder. Jumper landed without injury and pilot landed aircraft without injury.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE "JUMPER" WAS EXITING THE AIRCRAFT WHEN HIS RESERVE PULL-CABLE CAUGHT ON THE AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE DOOR-LATCH RECEPTACLE UNKNOWN TO THE JUMPER, SO WHEN THE JUMPER LAUNCHED, HIS RESERVE CHUTE DEPLOYED AND CAUGHT THE RIGHT ELEVATOR AND CAUSING THE ELEVATOR TO PARTIALLY DETACH. THE PARTIALLY DETACHED ELEVATOR WAS FLAPPING IN FLIGHT AND CAUSED MINOR DAMAGE TO THE RUDDER. JUMPER LANDED WITHOUT INJURY AND PILOT LANDED AIRCRAFT WITHOUT INJURY.

Other reports on N3854D · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Accident 19850106000592AGround Taxi, Other Airplane · Wesley Chapel, FLWhile taxiing, was struck by N94560, which had just landed and swerved off side of runway.Jan 6, 1985 · Substantial damage