- Date
- May 16, 1993, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Plainwell, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N8657BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930516013909A
- Case key
- 15719
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's initiating hand starting of the airplane unattended by a qualified person.
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 hand started the airplane with an non-pilot passenger in the airplane. After the engine started the pilot was unable to reenter the airplane to stop its forward progress. The non-pilot passenger was unable to operate the controls to stop the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8657B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36357
- Airframe hours
- 1,819
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Schiedel, Robert E.
- Registered owner
- Schiedel, Robert E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1992
- Airport
- 61D · Otsego-Plainwell 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 296 total · 296 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AZO, 30 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.