- Date
- January 8, 1992, 07:14 local (13:14 UTC)
- Place
- Memphis, TN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N13564Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920108000319A
- Case key
- 8550
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The passenger's failure to follow proper procedures to walk behind the airplane. Factors were the dawn light conditions and the light rain.
Analysis
The airplane was standing with the engine running. A personal flight had been made to the airport to drop off two passengers. After exiting the airplane, one passenger assisted his wife to deplane. She was provided an umbrella by a line person, then she proceeded to the terminal. The husband refused an umbrella. According to the pilot and the line person, as the male passenger walked away from the airplane, he walked into the propeller.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N13564
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702437
- Airframe hours
- 2,821
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cleary, Peter J.
- Registered owner
- Cleary, Robert W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 4, 1992 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- UOX · Oxford, MS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MEM · Memphis Intl
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 439 total · 395 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 220° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MEM, 1 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.