- Date
- November 10, 1991, 14:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Bowling Green, MO
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5015DCessna 182A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911110050119A
- Case key
- 15346
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Probable cause
Inadvertent deployment of the sky diver's parachute.
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
Pilot was flying a group of sport parachutists on a jump run, and noticed a pilot parachute out of its pack. The pilot yelled at parachutist but he stepped onto the aircraft wing strut. The parachute deployed and pulled the parachutist off the strut. The parachute became momentarily entangled with the horizontal stabilizer. The pilot landed the aircraft safely. The parachutist landed safely.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5015D
- Reported as
- Cessna 182A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51115
- Airframe hours
- 4,695
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Skydive St. Louis, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Skydive Assets, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 16, 1991 · 23 hours before
- Departed
- H19 · Bowling Green, MO
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,760 total · 200 in this make and model · 1,940 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 47 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.
Other investigations on N5015D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.