Cessna 180 N6545A

Summary

On 20 February 2000 at about 20:30 local time, a Cessna 180 registered N6545A was involved in an accident near Tower, Minnesota, United States. 4 people were on board and one died. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

20 February 2000 at 20:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Tower, Minnesota, United States

Coordinates

47.8106, -92.2899

Aircraft

Cessna 180

Registration

N6545A

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Lake Vermilion → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI00LA072

1 person died.

the passenger not maintaining clearance from the rotating propeller.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

A passenger deplaned, walked into the airplane's rotating propeller, and sustained fatal injuries. The pilot and two other passengers were uninjured. The flight originated from a private airstrip near Lake Vermilion, Minnesota at 1415, landed on Lake Vermilion, and was standing at the time of the accident. The pilot said his daughter's friends were approaching the airplane using their snowmobiles. He stated she was '...excited to meet with her friends.' The pilot stated, 'When the aircraft stopped I pulled out the fuel mixture as I was shutting down other equipment in the aircraft my daughter ... slipped out of the rear seat of the aircraft, when I saw her outside I screamed her name as she turned to look at me her body shifted foward and she was struck in the head once as the prop made its final revolution.'

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.