- Date
- July 5, 1992, 11:20 local (16:20 UTC)
- Place
- Dwight, IL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N35107Cessna 177B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920705023649A
- Case key
- 15487
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Probable cause
The passenger's inattention to the propeller arc and the pilot's improper procedure in disembarking a passenger while the engine was running.
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
After a flight, the pilot stopped on the ramp with engine running and attempted to gain the attention of ground personnel to attend to a discrepant condition on his airplane. When this did not succeed, he asked the passenger (his wife) to go and bring someone to the airplane. She got out the right door and walked into the propeller arc.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35107
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702212
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F60, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sancken, Elton H.
- Registered owner
- Sancken, Elton H.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · August 14, 1991
- Departed
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
- Destination
- DTG · Dwight, IL
- Airport
- DTG · Dwight
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 902 total · 878 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ARR, 38 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.