- Date
- March 3, 1985, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Waynesboro, VA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N3950DCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11164
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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 student plt taxied the acft to the run-up area and stopped with the engine running. The passenger, a rated helicopter pilot, exited the airplane to retrieve a portable communications radio. According to the student, the passenger ducked under the wing strut and walked forward into the propeller with the acft remaining stationary thru-out the occurrence. The passenger, who received serious shoulder and back lacerations, felt that he had cleared the prop arc and that the acft moved & struck him.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3950D
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34560
- Airframe hours
- 6,387
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Caleb Glick
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 16, 1985
- Airport
- W13 · Waynesboro
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 4 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHO, 23 nm away