- Date
- July 26, 1989, 20:25 local (Jul 27, 1989, 03:25 UTC)
- Place
- Bullhead City, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 19 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N332QCBritish Aerospace 3201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890726042759A
- Case key
- 26513
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Probable cause
The deplaning passenger's failure to observe a raised and marked area in the passenger cabin floor exit aisle. Contributing factors to the accident were: darkness and the fuselage floor exit aisle was designed with a raised area which partially obstructed its use.
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
While deplaning at night, a passenger was seriously injured when she tripped against the wing spar hump in the cabin floor main exit aisle. The operator reported that the spar hump was visibly marked.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N332QC
- Reported as
- British Aerospace 3201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 818
- Engine
- Garrett TPE 331-12, 1,125 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- American Intl, doing business as Air La, Inc.
- Departed
- LHU · Lake Havasu, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- P06 · Bullhead Laughlin
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,084 total · 1,640 in this make and model · 5,266 as pilot in command · 185 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.