- Date
- September 14, 1982, 20:18 local (Sep 15, 1982, 03:18 UTC)
- Place
- Renton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N9613JPiper PA-28-180C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820914046499A
- Case key
- 72374
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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.
Propeller/rotor contact to person
Procedures/directives - disregardedCause
Analysis
Pilot parked aircraft with engine running to discharge passenger. Passenger jumped off right wing into prop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9613J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-3766
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ralph W. Hubbard, Jr.
- Registered owner
- Kenneth O. Imel
- Departed
- 1WA6 · Fall City, WA
- Destination
- Spirit Lake, WA
- Airport
- RNT · Renton Municipal
N9613JRegistered now · Piper PA-28-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Temperature
- 149 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFI, 8 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.