# Incident 20150830021149I: Woodland, CA, August 30, 2015

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 30, 2015, 10:00 local time
- Place: Woodland, CA
- Airport: Woodland/Davis
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 38.6715° N, 121.7505° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Woodland, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6715&lon=-121.7505&mi=10
- Aircraft: NONE (not matched to a registry record)
- People aboard: 0
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Other injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20150830021149I

## Narrative

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

ON APPROXIMATELY 08/30/2015 PARACHUTIST EXPERIENCED A PARTIAL MALFUNCTION TO THE MAIN CANOPY (POSSIBLY A LINE-OVER) AT APPROXIMATELY 3000 FEET ALTITUDE.  WITNESS ACCOUNTS DESCRIBE AT LEAST TWO 360 TURNS TO THE RIGHT.

IT IS LIKELY THE PARACHUTIST PULLED THE ?RESERVE HANDLE? PART WAY OUT WITHOUT FIRST CUTTING AWAY THE MAIN CHUTE.  THAT CAUSED THE PARTIAL DEPLOYMENT OF ONLY ONE OF THE TWO SETS OF RISERS. CAUSING THE RESERVE DRAG CHUTE AND LANYARD BECAME ENTANGLED AND SPIRAL INTO THE MAIN CHUTE.   THEN THE PARACHUTIST PULLED THE EMERGENCY RESERVE AT A VERY LOW ALTITUDE CAUSED THE MAIN CANOPY TO FULLY COLLAPSE MAKING THE PARACHUTIST TO ACCELERATE INTO THE GROUND. THE PARACHUTIST WAS FATALLY INJURED.

THE OUT OF ORDER SEQUENCE OF EVENTS APPEARS THE CHUTE WAS NOT FULLY CUT AWAY WHEN THE RESERVE CHUTE WAS ATTEMPTED TO BE DEPLOYED.

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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