- Date
- May 8, 2012, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paducah, KY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1819LBeech A36
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) start-up: 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
- FAA report
- 20120508009131A
- Case key
- 83583
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 pilot’s failure to properly secure the airplane before turning the propeller by hand.
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
The pilot stated that the airplane's starter had been malfunctioning for about 1 month. On the day of the accident, he unsuccessfully attempted to start the engine from inside the airplane, then exited the airplane, and turned the propeller "slowly." The pilot’s intent in turning the propeller was not to start the engine. However, the engine started unexpectedly, and the airplane traveled across the ramp and impacted a parked airplane, resulting in substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated that the airplane's starter had been malfunctioning for approximately one month. On the day of the accident, he unsuccessfully attempted to start the engine from inside the airplane, then exited the airplane and turned the propeller "slowly," but stated he did not intend to hand-prop the engine. He stated that the engine then started unexpectedly, traveled across the ramp, and impacted a parked airplane, resulting in substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1819L
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-838
- Airframe hours
- 4,955
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO550 SERIES, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Carl Marquess
- Registered owner
- Momar LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 20, 2012
- Departed
- PAH · Paducah, KY
- Destination
- PAH · Paducah, KY
- Airport
- PAH · Barkley Regional 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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 8, 2010
- Flight hours
- 1,924 total · 1,690 in this make and model · 1,819 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- PAH
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 10, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.