- Date
- May 18, 1994, 20:45 local (May 19, 1994, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Boerne, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N6504MCessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940518016429A
- Case key
- 19074
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's inadequate supervision of his deplaning passenger.
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 pilot-in-command stopped the airplane on the ramp and reduced the power to idle. The pilot was talking to a person out his left window when the front seat passenger deplaned from the right side door and walked into the propeller, severing her left hand.
Factual narrative
On May 18, 1994, at 2045 central daylight time, a deplaning passenger of Cessna 182P, N6504M, sustained serious injuries near Boerne, Texas. The private pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local personal flight.
During a telephone interview the pilot reported the airplane was on the ramp area with the engine power at idle speed of 500 RPM's. The pilot was talking to another person, who had walked up to the airplane at his left side window, when the passenger, who was in the right front seat, deplaned. The passenger departed the ramp area toward the front of the airplane and her left hand was severed by the propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6504M
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18263734
- Engine
- Continental O-470-S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Anderson, Douglas C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5C1
- Destination
- 5C1
- Airport
- 5C1 · Boerne Stage Field, runway 17, 3,400 × 36 ft, asphalt
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 455 total · 72 in this make and model · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.