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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Mattoon, IL · January 31, 1978

Date: January 31, 1978 · 13:00 local
Place: Mattoon, IL
Airport: Coles Co
Phase of flight: Starting Engines
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: No damage
Aircraft: N5333T
Reported as: Cessna 172
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,200 total2,000 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N5333TRegistered now · Cessna 172HS/N 17256100 · Built 1967 Airframe modelCessna 172H Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Propeller struck pilot after hand-propping aircraft with mags on.

As the FAA filed it

PROPELLER STRUCK PILOT AFTER HAND-PROPPING AIRCRAFT WITH MAGS ON.

Other reports on N5333T · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

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