CHI83LA372 · Cessna 177B
Cessna 177B · Accident: propeller/rotor contact to person while standing
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI83LA372
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna 177B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 177
- 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
- N35083
- Operator
- Planeshack
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 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) start-up
- 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
- None
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Unsafe/hazardous condition, inattentive
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT WAS UNABLE TO START THE ENG USING NORMAL PROCEDURES. HE OBTAINED THE USE OF AN APU & STILL COULD NOT MAKE AN ELECTRICAL START. HE STATED THAT HE TURNED THE MAGNETO & MASTER SWITCHES OFF & ROTATED THE PROPELLER (PROP) BACKWARDS 1/2 TURN (TO CHECK FOR BINDING) BUT NO BINDING WAS NOTED. ANOTHER APU START WAS ATTEMPTED, BUT TO NO AVAIL. ACCORDING TO THE PLT, HE TURNED THE MAGNETO & MASTER SWITCHES OFF AGAIN & INTENDED TO TURN THE PROP FORWARD ABOUT 5 DEG. HE STATED THAT 'UPON TOUCHING THE PROP, ENG FIRED & PROP HIT RIGHT ARM CAUSING COMPOUND, MULTIPLE FRACTURE.' THE LINE CHIEF STATED THAT HE & THE PLT VERIFIED THAT THE SWITCHES WERE IN THE OFF POSITION. HOWEVER, LATER, WHEN THE IGNITION SYS WAS CHECKED, NO DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND. ALSO, AN AD HAD BEEN COMPLIED WITH TO PREVENT IGNITION WHEN THE SWITCH WAS IN THE OFF POSITION. ADDITIONALLY, THE STARTER WAS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED (BURNED OUT).
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI83LA372
- Event ID
- 20001214X44065
- Case number
- CHI83LA372
- 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: investigation status, damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b522927e8e739a523be85a86363794988b20da18ccb21fd7ff6d449f3ed0a029; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:50:53.562Z.