Accident Overview
During a skydiving operation, an airplane entered an inverted spin after a parachutist's parachute deployed while exiting at an altitude of 10,500 feet mean sea level. The deployed parachute became entangled around the airplane's right-hand landing gear, and the parachutist could not be freed from the entanglement.
Sequence of Events
The pilot, who was wearing a parachute, and the remaining parachutists aboard jumped from the airplane. Subsequently, the airplane impacted a flat field in an inverted attitude and in uncontrolled flight. The entangled parachutist received fatal injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
Investigation
The accident investigation analyzed the circumstances leading to the inverted spin and uncontrolled descent. The entanglement of the parachute with the landing gear prevented the parachutist from being freed, contributing to the fatal outcome. No probable cause was stated in the official report.