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25 January 2000 – A Piper PA-23-250 over-ran the runway due to wet weather. No Injuries, however the aircraft sustained substantial damage. [13] 9 August 2000 – A Cessna U206 operating on a parachuting flight lost sight of the runway upon landing and 'landed short of the strip'. Pilot sustained no injuries, however plane suffered ...
The United States Parachute Association (USPA) is a private sports governing body for the sport of skydiving in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Fredericksburg, Virginia . The USPA's roots go back to the National Parachute Riggers-Jumpers, Inc., which was formed in the 1930s.
[7] 460's tender was replaced in 1952 with one from 1565; the original tender had been transferred to maintenance-of-way service. [8] 460 was leased to the Pennsylvania–Reading Seashore Lines in 1953 before being retired on January 11, 1956 and added to the Pennsylvania's collection of historic locomotives in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
Daniel Skarry, a 52-year-old from Oakland, apparently lost consciousness while skydiving, The Bee reported at the time. The News-Sentinel reported Skarry suffered a heart attack during the jump ...
In the United States, skydiving is a self-regulated sport, which means skydivers, in the US, voluntarily follow a set of basic safety requirements established by the U.S. Parachute Association. Federal requirements can be found in the Federal Aviation Regulations. Most of the regulations concern the aircraft, pilot and rules of flight.
A main assisted reserve deployment (MARD) system is a skydiving safety device for parachute systems. While there are many variations, the operation and intended outcome for each is the same: open the reserve parachute container and extract the reserve parachute's deployment bag (and parachute) using the jettisoned main canopy.
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Skyhaven Airport (FAA LID: 76N) is a public use airport located in Eaton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The airport is one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of the borough of Tunkhannock. [1]