- Date
- May 7, 1993, 11:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Green Bay, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 33 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N852AWBritish Aerospace ATP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930507034169A
- Case key
- 9285
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Probable cause
the passenger's loss of footing (miscellaneous).
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
A 73 year-old passenger was attempting to board the airplane using the airplane's integral airstairs/door. She lost her balance and fell. She was transported to a local hospital and treated for a fractured left kneecap.
Factual narrative
On May 7, 1993, about 1140 central daylight time, a passenger attempting to board Air Wisconsin flight 5270 at Green Bay, Wisconsin, fell on the airplane's integral airstair door and fractured her left knee cap. The airplane, N852AW, a British Aerospace ATP, was not damaged. The destination of the 14 CFR Part 121 passenger flight was Chicago, Illinois. Visual meteorological conditions existed at Green Bay at the time of the accident.
The 73 year-old passenger reported she had made the first step, but her foot caught on the second step before she had grasped the hand rail. She said she then lost her balance and fell.
The passenger was treated by paramedics and transported to a local hospital.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N852AW
- Reported as
- British Aerospace ATP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2021
- Engine
- turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Air Wisconsin, doing business as United Express
- Registered owner
- Air Wisconsin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- ORD · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GRB · Austin Strabel
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,125 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 11,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N852AW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.