Accident · 2002-07-16
What the record says
- Event date
- 2002-07-16
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Serious injury
- Aircraft
- Saab-Scania AB (Saab) SF340B (N403XJ)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- MESABA AVIATION INC Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Mesaba Airlines
Probable cause
The failure of the ground agent to follow procedures and directives and to maintain a visual lookout due to a diversion of attention caused by paperwork being sucked toward the rotating propeller, resulting in collision between her hand and the propeller.
Source: NTSB case MIA02LA134Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.