- Date
- August 9, 1985, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Follett, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9457Cessna 182Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21819
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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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.
Propeller/rotor contact to person
Passenger briefing - inadequateCause
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Analysis
The passenger had deplaned to remove unnecessary articles from the aircraft and apparently was not cautioned by the PIC to be careful of the rotating propeller. As she returned to the aircraft to re-board she walked into the observed rotating propeller and was seriously injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9457
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266445
- Airframe hours
- 2,328
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Henry E. Koch
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 1, 1985
- Airport
- TX80 · Follett Lipscomb Co.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total · 100 in this make and model · 8,500 as pilot in command · 290 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 106 °F