FTW93LA209 · Cessna 172G
Trim Aire Aviation Cessna 172G · Accident: propeller/rotor contact to person while standing
From Teague Municipal Airport (68F) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW93LA209
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 172G
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N3631L
- Operator
- Trim Aire Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Teague Municipal Airport (68F), Teague, TXTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Standing · engine(s) operating
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Propeller/rotor contact to person
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Procedures/directives, not followed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
FOLLOWING LANDING THE PILOT FELT VIBRATIONS IN THE AIRPLANE. HE DECIDED TO STOP ON THE TAXIWAY TO PERFORM AN INSPECTION. THE PILOT REPORTED THAT HE PULLED THE MIXTURE TO IDLE AND REMOVED THE MAGNETO KEY PRIOR TO EXITING THE AIRPLANE. AS THE PILOT BENT DOWN TO EXAMINE THE NOSE WHEEL, HE WAS STRUCK ON THE HEAD BY THE PROPELLER BLADE. AN EMPLOYEE OF THE FIXED BASE OPERATION REPORTED THAT HE REMOVED THE IGNITION KEY BY TURNING IT THREE CLICKS TO THE LEFT. EXAMINATION OF THE MAGNETO SYSTEM REVEALED NO ANOMALIES. A MECHANIC REPAIRING THE AIRPLANE REPORTED THAT THE WHEEL WAS EXTREMELY LOOSE, THE BEARINGS COULD BE HEARD RATTLING, THE AXLE BOLT WAS ONLY FINGER TIGHT, AND THE LOWER STRUT BOLT WAS BENT. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE 'FOUND THE TUBE HAD A SMALL SPLIT, PROBABLY FROM AGE.'
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW93LA209
- Event ID
- 20001211X12916
- Case number
- FTW93LA209
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-07-08.
- API snapshot SHA-256: fea4bc330d001c52995e87e1a22fe084701587545b529125c2dbc1c3ca9292b1; retrieved 2026-09-21T14:18:16.015Z.