Cessna 182 N2364G

Summary

On 15 August 2009 at about 16:38 local time, a Cessna 182 registered N2364G, operated by North Texas Skydiving Center, LLC, was involved in an accident near Caddo Mills, Texas, United States. 5 people were on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

15 August 2009 at 16:38

Classification

Accident

Location

Caddo Mills, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Caddo Mills Municipal Airport (7F3)

Coordinates

33.0411, -96.2411

Aircraft

Cessna 182

Registration

N2364G

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

North Texas Skydiving Center, LLC

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Skydiving

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Caddo Mills → Caddo Mills

Aircraft damage

Minor

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN09LA525

1 person was seriously injured.

The failure of the operator to ensure that the airplane engine was shutdown during passenger unloading and the lack of adequate supervision of the passenger by the pilot and ground crewmember.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane landed from a skydiving flight with a remaining passenger after three parachutists had jumped from the airplane. The engine was not shut down and the airplane was pointed toward the vehicle waiting for the passenger to deplane. When the passenger exited the airplane, a ground crewmember leaned toward the airplane to talk to the pilot while the passenger went around the right side of the airplane. The passenger walked forward into the rotating propeller. Federal Aviation Administration guidance information states that stopping the engine is the most effective way to ensure passengers arrive and depart the vicinity of an airplane safely. When necessary to discharge a passenger from an aircraft on which an engine is running, it advises that the pilot should never stop the aircraft with the propeller in the path of the passenger’s route from the aircraft.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.