# Incident 20251004015839I: Cessna 208B, Orange, MA, October 4, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 4, 2025, 18:00 local time
- Place: Orange, MA
- Airport: Orange Airport
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Parachute jumping (Part 105)
- Location: 42.5700° N, 72.2885° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at ORANGE MUNI (ORE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5700&lon=-72.2885&mi=10
- Aircraft: N80JF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N80JF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 208B (registry code 2073701, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-208b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Honeywell TPE331-12JR (registry code 33806, https://openairdocs.org/engine/honeywell-tpe331-12jr) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 208B
- 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/20251004015839I

## Narrative

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

MAIN CHUTE HARNESS AND CONTAINER: CHUTE SHOP VOTEX II V4 S/N:0323430 DOM: JUNE 2016

RESERVE CANOPY AERODYNE RESEARCH SMART 150 SN:25691 DOM: MAY 2004

(AAD) AIRTEC CYPRES 2 EXP. SN:34609 DOM:1/2024

ON OCTOBER 4, 2025, AT APPROXIMATELY 1800 LOCAL TIME, FIVE PARACHUTISTS EXITED AN AIRCRAFT AT 14,000 FEET TO PERFORM A JUMPING SPIDER FORMATION. WITNESSES CONFIRMED THE VICTIM WAS ALERT AND RESPONSIVE DURING THE JUMP, SIGNALING EACH MANEUVER. MULTIPLE FORMATION MEMBERS LATER CORROBORATED THAT THE VICTIM HAD BEEN FULLY ENGAGED AND COMMUNICATIVE THROUGHOUT THE DESCENT. AS THE GROUP BROKE FORMATION TO DEPLOY THEIR PARACHUTES, TWO JUMPERS COLLIDED. THIS COLLISION IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RENDERED THE VICTIM UNCONSCIOUS. THE REMAINING FORMATION MEMBERS DEPLOYED THEIR PARACHUTES AND LANDED SAFELY IN THE DESIGNATED LANDING ZONE (LZ). THE UNCONSCIOUS JUMPER DID NOT ACTIVATE EITHER HIS MAIN OR RESERVE CHUTE. HIS RESERVE PARACHUTE WAS DEPLOYED AUTOMATICALLY BY HIS SAFETY DEVICE AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION DEVICE (AAD). HE LANDED UNCONSCIOUS BUT UNDER A FULLY INFLATED CANOPY ON AIRPORT GROUNDS. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS PROVIDED IMMEDIATE CARE AND TRANSPORTED THE VICTIM TO THE HOSPITAL. HE PASSED AWAY ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 7, 2025

## Other reports on N80JF (3)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20260712007539I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20260712007539I), Jul 12, 2026: Cessna 208B (N80JF), Orange, MA, No damage, 1 fatal. Main chute: manufacture- performance design, inc, model: pd student 220, [privacy data omitted], date of manufacture: unk. Harness and container: manufacture-…
- [Incident 20200402006369I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200402006369I), Apr 2, 2020: Cessna 208B (N80JF), Lake Wales, FL, No damage. Skydiver landed fast and hard and broke ankle on landing as he lost his footing.
- [Accident 20190629008409A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20190629008409A), Jun 29, 2019: Cessna 208B (N80JF), Plant City, FL, Substantial damage. On June 29, 2019, at 0930 EST a 1993 Cessna, model 208B, N80JF registered to isr aviation LLC, had a hard landing resulting in a nose gear collapse at Plant…

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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