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Cessna T210M N761GW

25 June 2006 · Hayward, California, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 25 June 2006 at about 19:35 local time, a Cessna T210M registered N761GW, operated by Aerial Advertising Services, was involved in an accident near Hayward, California, United States. 2 people were on board. One person on the ground also died. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

The record

Date
at 19:35
Classification
Accident
Location
Hayward, California, United States
Nearest airport
Hayward Executive Airport (HWD)
Coordinates
37.6589, -122.1217
Aircraft
Cessna T210M
Registration
N761GW
Category
Airplane
Engines
1
Operator
Aerial Advertising Services
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Personal
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Petaluma → Hayward
Aircraft damage
Not recorded
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
LAX06LA213

People

Injuries not recorded.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured On the ground
2 0 0 0 1 1

Probable cause

The passenger's failure to see and avoid the rotating propeller.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane was standing with the engine operating when the passenger got out of the airplane and contacted the rotating propeller. The pilot stated that prior to the accident he and the passenger had flown to another airport. Following a brief stop, they flew to the accident airport. After landing the pilot taxied to the pad area where he turned the airplane around, positioning the nose to face the runways. The pilot began cooling down the turbocharged engine by maintaining low revolutions per minute (rpm), while keeping the airplane stationary. He planned to perform an approximate 5-minute cooling down period and then taxi the airplane to a parking area where he would shut down. After several minutes of the airplane standing, the passenger took off his headset, got out of the airplane, and walked into the rotating propeller. The pilot was not sure of the reasoning behind the passenger exiting the airplane but thought that he may have been getting impatient with the wait for the engine cool down. The pilot stated that the passenger was an experienced pilot; in recent years he mostly flew airplanes that were equipped with wing struts.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Other Cessna T210M accidents

Date Aircraft Location Operator Outcome Died
25 Dec 2006 Cessna T210M
N6051N
Broomfield, Colorado, United States - No injuries -
25 Jun 2006 Cessna T210M
N761GW
Hayward, California, United States Aerial Advertising Services No injuries -
22 Sep 2006 Cessna T210M
N732PC
Delta, Utah, United States - Minor injuries -
24 Nov 2006 Cessna T210M
N977SA
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Jeffrey M. Soderberg No injuries -
29 Jan 2006 Cessna T210M
N761ZV
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States - Serious injuries -
24 Sep 2007 Cessna T210M
N732XE
Moriarty, New Mexico, United States - Fatal 1

All 231 records for this type

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no coordinates
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