- Date
- May 28, 1983, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tallassee, AL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3112UCessna 182F
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830528064579A
- Case key
- 6089
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
As the student jumper was getting out of the aircraft and onto the step in preparation for a parachute jump the pack tray prematurely opened and the canopy blossomed under the tail pulling the jumper into the horizontal stabilizer causing a cut on his left shin. About 15 inches of the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator were sheared by the jumper. The remainder was crumpled and deformed from mid-span outward. A witness stated that the only way this could happen was if the pilot had the yoke back and the tail low. In other premature openings the witness had been involved with, the parachute opened under the tail and the jumper also went under the tail clearing the aircraft structure in all cases.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3112U
- Reported as
- Cessna 182F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18254512
- Airframe hours
- 475
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jerry T. Montgomery
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 20, 1982 · 160 hours before
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 174 total · 147 in this make and model · 138 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.