- Date
- December 21, 1983, 07:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Spartanburg, SC
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 serious
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N2354GCessna 182B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831221064129A
- Case key
- 6401
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
The acft propeller struck a passenger approaching to board the acft. The plt had started the acft for warm-up prior to the boarding. The passenger stumbled approaching the acft and fell into the revolving propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2354G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51654
- Airframe hours
- 3,833
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- C. N. Keith & B. L. Williams
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 15, 1983 · 78 hours before
- Destination
- AGS · Augusta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SPA · Spartanburg Downtown Mem.
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,984 total · 360 in this make and model · 3,652 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 60° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSP, 13 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.