# Incident 20100717037499I: Stroudsburg, PA, July 17, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 17, 2010, 14:45 local time
- Place: Stroudsburg, PA
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Unknown
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 40.9832° N, 75.1943° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Stroudsburg, PA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.9832&lon=-75.1943&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- People aboard: 0
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Other injuries: 0
- 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/20100717037499I

## Narrative

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

THE TWO PARACHUTISTS WERE LANDING WHEN ONE MOVED FROM THE RIGHT TO LEFT, THE PARACHUTES   COLLIDED TOGETHER AND THE LINES INTERTWINED MAKING THE PARACHUTIST SPIN AROUND EACH OTHER APPROXIMATELY 360 DEGREE, THEN SPIRALED TO THE GROUND FROM APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET.THE PARACHUTISTS WERE THEODORE WILSON AND GEORGE FLYNN, BOTH DIED FROM THEIR INJURIES. THE AGES, MR. WILSON 70 AND MR. FLYNN 75, PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR DEATHS.  BOTH WERE EXPERIENCED PARACHUTIST MR. WILSON HAD 12 YEARS AND OVER 1500 JUMPS AND MR. FLYNN HAS 8 YEARS AND OVER 600 JUMPS. BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF THE USPA, THEIR PARACHUTES WERE 9 CELL RAM AIR TYPE, MR. WILSON'S PACKING RECORD WAS DATED 3/21/2010 AND MR. FLYNN'S WAS DATED 5/10/2010.

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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