- Date
- January 31, 1983, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Rapids, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9708RBeech M35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830131001869A
- Case key
- 33314
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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
The acft engine fired as the pilot hand-propped it and the propeller struck the pilot in the leg. The pilot had tried the starter but could not get a start. He turned the switches off and decided to pull the prop through by hand. He pulled it through backwards a few times and then turned it in the normal direction. The engine fired and the prop struckthe pilot's leg. The magneto switch was found to have play in it but did cut off when positioned as FAR left as possible. It was left slightly out of detent by the pilot as determined by movement of the switch toward off after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9708R
- Reported as
- Beech M35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6269
- Airframe hours
- 6,899
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wathan Flying Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 3, 1982 · 60 hours before
- Destination
- OMA · Omaha, NE
- Airport
- CID · Cedar Rapids Municipal
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 398 total · 77 in this make and model · 277 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 14 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CID
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.