- Date
- March 21, 1986, 06:30 local (12:30 UTC)
- Place
- Memphis, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4276HPiper PA-14
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860321008599A
- Case key
- 7003
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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 collided with an air compressor and a hangar door during taxi after the plt hand-propped the unoccupied acft. The ptl said that the thought the 'switches were off'.he was pulling the prop to 'loosen' the oil when the eng started and the acft started to roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4276H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-14
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Day Oates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1986
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MEM · Memphis
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
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,800 total · 520 in this make and model · 7 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4276H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.