- Date
- August 18, 1990, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Columbus, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Other
- Aircraft
- N20824Cessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900818033929A
- Case key
- 14482
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Probable cause
The skydiver's panic and failure to depart the aircraft as instructed. Contributing was the skydiver's lack of total experience in this type of operation.
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
After climbing out of the aircraft on his first jump, the skydiver froze on the lift strut of the aircraft. The jumpmaster deployed his chute, intentionally pulling him off the aircraft. The chute deployed above the horizontal stabilizer, the skydiver went below. The canopy lines (4) were dragged across the horizontal stabilizer cutting the lines and damaging the stabilizer. The skydiver received serious injuries on landing in a field. The pilot was able to make a precautionary landing with no additional damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20824
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18261236
- Airframe hours
- 3,698
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Goldwing Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 15, 1990 · 100 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,035 total · 600 in this make and model · 85 in the last 90 days · 31 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSN, 13 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.