- Date
- September 20, 1990, 13:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Troutdale, OR
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N18677Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900920041259A
- Case key
- 41284
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Probable cause
Passengers failure to maintain clearance from the turning propeller. A factor in the accident was his diverted attention to a helicopter on the ground nearby with the engine running.
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
When the acft came to a halt on the ramp after taxiing in from landing, the passenger exited before the engine was shut down, and inadvertently walked into the turning propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18677
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074036
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard A. Schaefer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Airport
- TTD · Troutdale
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
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 590 total · 253 in this make and model · 454 as pilot in command · 87 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TTD
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 N18677 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.