Cessna pilot exits plane during ground run

[pelmet]

I would be curious to know more details.

Occurrence No. : A14P0066 Occurrence Type: INCIDENT VOLUNTARY

Class : CLASS 5 Reportable Type:

Date : 30-04-2014 Time : 12:20 PDT

Region of Responsibility : PACIFIC

Location : CYVK VERNON, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Aircraft Information:

Registration : C-FWMZ Operator :

Manufacturer : CESSNA Operator Type: PRIVATE

Model : 177 CARs Info:

Injuries: Fatal : 0 Serious : 0 Minor : 1 None : 0 Unknown : 0

Occurrence Summary :

A14P0066: The pilot of Cessna 177, C-FWMZ, was ground running the engine of the aircraft and had exited the cabin. The aircraft broke loose from its tie-down and collided with a hangar. The pilot sustained minor injuries while attempting to stop the aircraft

[iflyforpie]

The Cardinal point here is to never leave your aircraft when it is running. It doesn't matter if you've done it 177 times before without incident. Cessna to do it right in the regs.

[CPLMike89]

HA! I see what you did there...

[AirFrame]

Even though most of the good puns have been said in this thread, I cantilever alone... Hopefully someone is gearing up to tricycling through some other old ones.

[Rhys Perraton]

I don't think the owner, who got dragged across the ramp and saw his aircraft get written off when it hit the hangar, thought it was quite as funny.

[ragbagflyer]

Sorry to hear he was injured. I guess he can't strut to nearest bar to prop-erly drown his sorrows.

[Colonel Sanders]

Amazingly often, aircraft come to grief with
no one at the controls. Off the top of my head,
at my tiny airport:

1) Cessna 210 crashes vertically in infield and
is destroyed. No one is aboard. Owner collects
insurance.

2) Maule (not mine) starts somehow, bounds
across infield and is trashed with no one at the
controls.

3) C310 has engines running with no one at the
controls, hops the chocks, and slices up a shiny
new red pickup truck with a prop

4) Champ is hand-propped, starts, gets loose at
high power setting, pilot hanging on to strut, pulls
it and goes nose-to-nose with shiny new 182 with
engine running and four people on board, RIGHT
BESIDE GAS PUMPS. Miraculously no one is hurt,
parts are found 100+ feet away, beside windsock.

5) Cherokee with dead battery is hand-propped
on ice. Gets loose, runs over owner - whom is
miraculously not hurt - drives across snow-covered
infield at full power, bounds across ramps and
drives into hangar so hard that Cessna inside hangar
requires $20,000 teardown and airframe repair.
Hangar doors need replacing, of course.

Good job, everyone!

[GyvAir]

1) Cessna 210 crashes vertically in infield and
is destroyed. No one is aboard. Owner collects
insurance.

Any official (or unofficial) description of the events leading up to the 210's non-piloted vertical descent and demise?

[Colonel Sanders]

I'm pretty certain that the owner flew here at
night, and had a buddy drive a car here.

Owner gets out of the airplane at the threshold
of RWY 06, pushes throttle all the way in with
the friction lock set.

C210 pitches up, yaws left, drops left wing and
impacts into infield.

Owner gets into buddy's car and drives off. Calls
insurance company in the morning.

To the best of my knowledge, the owner was
never charged with anything. Amazing.

[GyvAir]

There's gotta be better ways to go about defrauding your insurance company, albeit likely somewhat less dramatic.

[Colonel Sanders]

How about just torching the motherf__ker
instead of launching it into the air, to land
God knows where? That was really irresponsible
and dangerous. And TC never cared.

[flyinthebug]

That was really irresponsible
and dangerous. And TC never cared.

Maybe they simply couldn't prove your theory CS? Im sure the insurance company would have done some digging if this rumour was around when it occurred?

[Colonel Sanders]

Since when does TC need proof?

They assert a position, and if you protest,
that is proof of your guilt.

[pdw]

Owner gets into buddy's car and drives off. Calls
insurance company in the morning.

I'd be scared of the buddy.

When you compare that kind of fear though, to someone underestimating the strength of the tie-downs and then hanging on for dear life to the wing strut ... man, you want to make sure you don't ever want to get into that position (for whatever reason).

[Colonel Sanders]

Friends help you move.

Good friends help you move bodies.

hanging on for dear life to the wing strut

I can't let that pearl slide by. A few years back, a TC
Inspector who testified at the Tribunal what a dangerous
and incompetent pilot I was - this mystified me, because
he had never seen me fly - hand-propped a Champ at a
grass strip in Eastern Ontario with no one at the controls
of course, and it wasn't tied down. Throttle was wide open,
and he ended up hanging onto the strut as the engine bellowed
and the airplane turned in circles until it hit something big
enough to stop it.

No charges were laid against the TC Inspector, of course,
despite his extremely dangerous actions.

The irony was dripping, and eluded many, I am sure.

This TC Inspector was fond of calling down to US airshows
and telling them what dangerous pilots my father and I
were, to maliciously sabotage our airshow bookings. When
this turned out to be complete nonsense, this of course
reflected extremely poorly upon TC.

For many years, TC would not issue an SFOC for an airshow
in Canada if it listed me as a participant. Again, this kind of
capricious, childish and petty nonsense reflects extremely
poorly upon TC. For this, they receive an indexed pension
with handsome defined benefits.

[Blakey]

When you compare that kind of fear though, to someone underestimating the strength of the tie-downs and then hanging on for dear life to the wing strut ... man, you want to make sure you don't ever want to get into that position (for whatever reason).

I 100% guarantee you he was not hanging onto the strut of the 177. I 99.9 % guarantee you that, no matter what actually happened, nobody was hanging onto the strut of the 210 either.

[flyinthebug]

Since when does TC need proof?

They assert a position, and if you protest,
that is proof of your guilt.

Touche`

[iflyforpie]

When you compare that kind of fear though, to someone underestimating the strength of the tie-downs and then hanging on for dear life to the wing strut ... man, you want to make sure you don't ever want to get into that position (for whatever reason).

I 100% guarantee you he was not hanging onto the strut of the 177. I 99.9 % guarantee you that, no matter what actually happened, nobody was hanging onto the strut of the 210 either.

Why not? Both of those planes have three struts... two of which are easy if a bit awkward to hang on to....