- Date
- May 26, 2023, 03:50 local (10:50 UTC)
- Place
- Kingman, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N94599Cessna 182Q
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) operating: AC/prop/rotor contact w person
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20230526006039A
- Case key
- 192281
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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Probable cause
The failure of the passenger to adequately maintain a safe distance from the airplane’s propeller and the determination to let the passenger exit the airplane with the engine running.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that on a night landing the airplane touched down smoothly on the main landing gear. During the landing roll, when the nose gear touched down, the airplane’s roll out became rough and bumpy. When the airplane came to a stop, the pilot and passenger discussed that they probably had a flat nose wheel tire. Subsequently, the passenger exited the airplane to examine the nose wheel tire and observed it to be flat. The pilot told the passenger to keep clear and then attempted to taxi clear of the runway. However, at a high-power setting, the airplane only moved a few feet, and the pilot elected to discontinue the taxi. The pilot was deciding what his next move would be when the passenger approached the airplane from the front. The pilot tried to warn the passenger but subsequently, the propeller struck the passenger and resulted in a serious injury.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94599
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18266458
- Built
- 1978
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ams Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 18, 2023
- Departed
- FLG · Flagstaff, AZ
- Destination
- IGM · Kingman, AZ
- Airport
- IGM · Kingman Airport, runway 17, 6,725 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 2, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 929 total · 58 in this make and model · 875 as pilot in command · 149 in the last 90 days · 92 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.83 inHg
- Observed at
- KIGM
- METAR
- METAR KIGM 261051Z AUTO 17008KT 10SM CLR 16/M01 A2983 RMK AO2 SLP037 T01561011
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.