- Date
- November 11, 2011, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kissimmee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N452WANorth American SNJ-6
- Defining event
- Standing: Miscellaneous/other
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 13, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 83438
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The passenger’s fall from the airplane during a normal egress.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
At the conclusion of an introductory flight, the passenger was disembarking from the vintage military training-type airplane when she fell, fracturing her leg. The passenger stated that she did not receive a briefing before the flight. However, according to the operator of the airplane, the passenger had practiced boarding and disembarking from the airplane the day before with no difficulty, and, on the day of the accident, she did not follow the instructor's directions for disembarking.
Factual narrative
At the conclusion of a introductory flight, the passenger was disembarking the vintage military training-type airplane when she fell, fracturing her leg. The passenger stated that she did not receive a briefing prior to the flight. However, according to the operator of the airplane, the passenger had practiced boarding and disembarking the airplane the day prior with no difficulty, and on the day of the accident did not follow the instructor's directions for disembarking.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N452WA
- Reported as
- North American SNJ-6
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 112034
- Airframe hours
- 9,826
- Engine
- P&W R1340 SERIES, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Warbird Adventures Inc
- Registered owner
- Warbird Adventures Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 8, 2011
- Departed
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Destination
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Airport
- ISM · Kissimmee Gateway Airport
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 2,200 total · 1 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Observed at
- ISM
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 10, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 MB in all.