- Date
- February 24, 1983, 19:16 local (Feb 25, 1983, 01:16 UTC)
- Place
- St. Louis, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N237AMSwearingen SA 226TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830224024079I
- Case key
- 33319
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Rotating right prop struck a female child passenger who had run down the acft airstair to retrieve a doll she had dropped while climbing the airstair to board for the flt. A company attendant was stationed at the left (stopped) prop, but not on or near the airstair, to assist the passengers. The operator had no procedures governing the operation of engines during enplaning & deplaning. Boarding procedures were sketchy, but have been changed since the accident to require a crewmember be on the boarding stairs prior to boarding passengers.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N237AM
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA 226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC332
- Airframe hours
- 5,470
- Engine
- Airesearch 331-3UW-30-3G, 940 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Midwest
- Registered owner
- Omni International Corps
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · February 18, 1983
- Departed
- COU · Columbia, MO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- STL · Lambert-St. Louis Intl.
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,534 total · 4,209 in this make and model · 5,599 as pilot in command · 233 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STL
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 N237AM · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.