- Date
- July 8, 1990, 11:38 local (15:38 UTC)
- Place
- White Cloud, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N77721Funk, D.D. B-85C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900708024959A
- Case key
- 14470
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Probable cause
The passengers disregard of the pilot's instructions and her failure to maintain clearance from 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.
Analysis
The pilot taxied off the hard surface runway into the grass to allow another airplane to takeoff on the runway. Upon returning to the runway surface, the passenger reported to the pilot that there was something tangled on the right main gear. The passenger exited the airplane to untangle the gear and was struck by the propeller. The pilot stated that the passenger disregarded his instructions to stay behind the landing gear when out of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N77721
- Reported as
- Funk, D.D. B-85C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 351
- Airframe hours
- 2,037
- Engine
- Continental C85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas C. Waldorf
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 27, 1990 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 42C · White Cloud, MI
- Destination
- 6D6 · Greenville, MI
- Airport
- 42C · White Cloud, runway 17, 2,911 × 50 ft, macadam
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
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 97 total · 30 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.