- Date
- March 14, 1988, 05:30 local (10:30 UTC)
- Place
- Elizabethton, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N7609XCessna 172B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880314044899A
- Case key
- 7822
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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
Due to a low charge in the battery, the plt elected to start the eng by hand propping, so he could program the loran for a later flt. He began hand propping with the tail & left wing tied down. After the eng started, the tiedown for the tail pulled loose & the acft moved around the left wing tiedown. Subsequently, it hit a nearby floatplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7609X
- Reported as
- Cessna 172B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17248109
- Airframe hours
- 2,670
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Arnold O. Hopland
- Registered owner
- Arnold Hopland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1987
- Destination
- HLX · Galax, VA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 0A9 · Elizabethton Muni
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Expired
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 260 in this make and model · 780 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TRI, 10 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.
Other investigations on N7609X · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.