- Date
- May 28, 1982, 20:40 local (May 29, 1982, 03:40 UTC)
- Place
- Palm Springs, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 5 uninjured; on the ground: 1 serious
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N1009RSwearingen SA226-TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 28, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820528020039A
- Case key
- 72143
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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.
Analysis
After starting the engines at night, a signal was given to a line service employee to disconnect the APU. While attempting to disconnect the APU, the line service employee moved into the path of the right propeller and was seriously injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1009R
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA226-TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-358
- Airframe hours
- 3,428
- Engine
- TPE331, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Sunaire
- Registered owner
- Sunaire
- Departed
- PSP · Palm Springs, CA
- Destination
- Yuma, AZ
- Airport
- PSP · Palm Springs
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,150 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 260 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.