- Date
- October 2, 1989, 21:13 local (Oct 3, 1989, 02:13 UTC)
- Place
- Edmond, OK
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1940PPiper PA-22-150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891002039299A
- Case key
- 23059
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were: darkness and the passenger's impairment from use of a prescription drug (medication).
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 plt stated that after lndg at night, he stopped the acft short of the parking spot, intending to shut the eng down to remove a vehicle from the parking area. He rprtd that before he could shut down the eng, the passenger deplaned & walked into the prop. He learned subsequent to the flight that the passenger had consumed five fiornial #3 capsules containing a total of 150 mg of codeine and 250MG of butalbital before their 1900 CDT departure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1940P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22-2691
- Airframe hours
- 2,374
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-C2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Christopher E. Poindexter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 5, 1989 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- LBL · Liberal, KS
- Airport
- NONE · Myrick (Pvt)
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 248 total · 47 in this make and model · 202 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 32 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
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 N1940P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.