ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66783
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| Date: | Saturday 1 August 2009 |
| Time: | 19:00 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft B90 King Air |
| Owner/operator: | Rampart Aviation, Inc. |
| Registration: | N1999G |
| MSN: | LJ-319 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10955 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney PT6 SER 578HP |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | West Point, Virginia -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | West Point, VA |
| West Point, VA (FYJ) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During a skydiving flight at approximately 14,000 feet, an instructor positioned himself at the door opening with his jump student nearby. The student inadvertently pulled the instructor's reserve parachute D-ring, deploying the chute and pulling the instructor out of the airplane. The instructor contacted the left horizontal stabilizer then descended toward the ground coming to rest suspended in a tree by his parachute.
Probable Cause: The inadvertent deployment of the instructor's reserve parachute.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 July 2007 | N1999G | Franklin County Sport Parachute Center, Inc. | 0 | Louisburg, North Carolina | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Aug-2009 10:36 | slowkid | Added |
| 03-Aug-2009 14:28 | RobertMB | Updated |
| 13-Nov-2010 15:42 | TB | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:25 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 02-Dec-2017 15:59 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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