# Incident 20081228853689I: Mount Vernon, MO, December 28, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 28, 2008, 13:56 local time
- Place: Mount Vernon, MO
- Airport: Mount Vernon Municipal
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 37.0684° N, 93.8849° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MOUNT VERNON MUNI (2MO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.0684&lon=-93.8849&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/20081228853689I

## Narrative

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

PER FAA ORDER 8020.11B PARAGRAPH 265: NAME OF JUMPER: ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.  EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING OF JUMPER: UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, WILL UPDATE INFORMATION WHEN AVAILABLE.  CLUB AFFILIATION: FREEFALL EXPRESS SKYDIVING, INC.  DESCRIPTION OF THE PARACHUTES AND THEIR PACKING RECORDS: MAIN PARACHUTE: PERFORMANCE DESIGNS MODEL SPECTRE 170, SERIAL NO: SP170-002264.  NO PACKING RECORD; PARACHUTIST MAY PACK THEIR OWN PARACHUTE.  RESERVE PARACHUTE: PERFORMANCE DESIGNS PD RESERVE MODEL 193, SERIAL NO: 14525.  PACKED BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ ON 10/10/2008.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ JUMPED FROM AIRCRAFT AT 10,000 FEET.  AT ABOUT 3,500 FEET, HE DEPLOYED HIS MAIN PARACHUTE AND FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON THEN CUT THE MAIN PARACHUE AWAY.  AT ABOUT 2,000 FEET, HE DEPLOYED HIS RESERVE PARACHUTE, WHICH DID NOT FULLY OPEN BEFORE IMPACTING THE GROUND.  INCIDENT NUMBER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ IS CLOSED WITH THIS REPORT.

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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