# Incident 20140830018669I: Cessna 208B, Rockmart, GA, August 30, 2014

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 30, 2014, 14:18 local time
- Place: Rockmart, GA
- Airport: Moore Field
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 34.2759° N, 84.5902° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Moore Airport, within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.2759&lon=-84.5902&mi=10
- Aircraft: N104JP (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 208B
- People aboard: 16
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Other injuries: 1
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20140830018669I

## Narrative

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

ON AUGUST 30, 2014 AT APPROXIMATELY 1330 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME, A CESSNA 208B AIRCRAFT, N104JP, REGISTERED TO JUMP OUT NOW LLC, AND FLOWN BY PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, DEPARTED ?SKYDIVE THE FARM? WITH 15 SKYDIVERS.  THE COMMERCIAL FLIGHT WAS BEING CONDUCTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 14 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (CFR) PART 105 WITHOUT A FLIGHT PLAN.

VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND LIGHT WINDS PREVAILED AT TIME OF INCIDENT.  TEMPERATURE 90 DEGREES F, DEW POINT 69 DEGREES, WIND DIRECTION 160 DEGREES, WIND SPEED 7 MPH, GUSTS TO 17 MPH WITH BAROMETER READING 30.04.

DONALD BRAGG, AGE 27, WITH 163 RECORDED JUMPS, WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE COLLIDED WITH SKYDIVER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.  BOTH DIVERS BELONG TO THE SKYDIVE THE FARM JUMP CLUB LOCATED AT 1195 GRADY ROAD, ROCKMART GA 30153. MR. BRAGG WAS WEARING A RENTED MIRAGE SYSTEMS HARNESS CONTAINER SYSTEM G#, S/N 03222, DATED 04/2001 OWNED BY THE FARM.  HIS PARACHUTES WERE;  PRECISION PARACHUTE COMPANY RAVEN 1, S/N 0185563 (NORMAL) AND PERFORMANCE DESIGNS INC., STORM 170, S/N TF-170 000086 (EMERGENCY).  THE SEAL AND DATA CARD WERE RECOVERED.  THE EMERGENCY PARACHUTE WAS PACKED BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, SENIOR PARACHUTE RIGGER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.    THE RESERVE PARACHUTE WAS PACKED ON 13 JUNE 2014.

^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ AND ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WERE JUMPING TO PERFORM A MISTER BILL.  THIS IS A STUNT WHERE TWO PEOPLE JUMP TOGETHER AND WHEN THE MAIN JUMPER PULLS HIS CHUTE THE OTHER JUMPER TRIES TO HANG ON AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.  THE DECEASED, MR. BRAGG, WAS FILMING THE MANEUVER.  WHEN THE PAIR JUMPED AND OPENED THE CHUTE, MR. BRAGG HIT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ IN THE BACK AND KNOCKED ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OUT WHERE HE FLOATED DOWN WITH BOTH MAIN AND EMERGENCY CHUTES DEPLOYED.  HE SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES AND WAS HOSPITALIZED.  MR. BRAGG ALSO HAD BOTH CHUTES DEPLOYED BUT WAS FATALLY INJURED EITHER BY IMPACT OF HITTING ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OR BY IMPACTING THE GROUND.  THE REMAINING SKYDIVER, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ FLEW CLOSE TO THE OTHER 2 (TWO) AND OBSERVED THAT THEY WERE BOTH UNRESPONSIVE.

AT 1420 HOURS, REDMOND GA EMS AND CEDARTOWN GA FIRE DEPARTMENT RESCUE RESPONDED TO THE AREA AT 316 GRADY ROAD ROCKMART GA TO INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT.  HANS PAULSEN (OWNER OF SKYDIVE THE FARM) HAD CALLED 911 AFTER TRAVERSING THE AREA IN A HELICOPTER AND LOCATING THE DECEASED DIVER AND FALLEN DIVER.  THE DECEASE?S BODY WAS TURNED OVER TO THE GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

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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