# Incident 20160101000129I: Cessna 182F, Franklin, IN, January 1, 2016

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 1, 2016, 11:40 local time
- Place: Franklin, IN
- Airport: Franklin Flying Field
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 39.4264° N, 86.0583° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FRANKLIN FLYING FLD (3FK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.4264&lon=-86.0583&mi=10
- Aircraft: N3549U, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3549U) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 182F (registry code 2072714, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182f) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182F
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Other injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160101000129I

## Narrative

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

ON JANUARY  1, 2016, AT 11:40 LOCAL TIME, A 54 YEAR OLD FEMALE SKYDIVER, MRS. TERESA G. WOODS RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES FROM IMPACT WITH THE GROUND AFTER PERFORMING A ROUTINE JUMP FROM 2500 FT AGL. ACCORDING TO EYE WITNESS REPORTS AND AN EXAMINATION OF "GO PRO" VIDEO FOOTAGE, RECORDED BY A FELLOW JUMP PARTICIPANT, MRS. WOODS MAIN PARACHUTE DID NOT INITIALLY DEPLOY. EYE WITNESS REPORTS CLAIM MRS. WOODS EXPERIENCED A "PILOT CHUTE IN TOW" SCENARIO. SUBSEQUENTLY, MRS. WOODS DEPLOYED THE RESERVE PARACHUTE. EYE WITNESS' REPORT THAT THE MAIN CHUTE DEPLOYED SHORTLY AFTER THE RESERVE CHUTE INFLATED. ACCORDING TO TWO ON SITE EXPERIENCED SKIDIVING INSTRUCTORS AND THE PILOT OF THE JUMP AIRCRAFT, MRS. WOODS PARACHUTES MANUEVERED TO OPPOSING SIDES OF HER RESULTING IN A DOWNPLANE SCENARIO ACCELERATING HER INTO THE GROUND. EXAMINATION OF MRS. WOODS LOGBOOK SHOWED THAT SHE HAD LOGGED 1302 SUCCESSFUL JUMPS AND HAD REPACKED HER MAIN CHUTE ON OCT 30, 2015, HER LAST LOGGED JUMP. EXAMINATION OF HER PACK RECORDS SHOWED THE RESERVE CHUTE HAD BEEN REPACKED BY A CERTIFICATED RIGGER ON SEPT 26, 2015. ACCORDING TO MRS. WOODS HUSBAND, AND FELLOW SKYDIVERS, MRS. WOODS ROUTINELY REPACKED HER OWN MAIN PARACHUTE. EXAMINATION OF THE PACK SHOWED THAT MRS. WOODS DID NOT ATTEMPT TO CUT AWAY THE MAIN CHUTE. EXAMINATION OF THE MAIN CHUTE SHOWED NO ANOMALIES.  THE PARACHUTE MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN CONTACTED AND THIS REPORT MAY BE AMENDED AT A FUTURE DATE.

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