# Incident 19981209042289I: Bac 111*, Sacramento, CA, December 9, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 9, 1998, 23:20 local time
- Place: Sacramento, CA
- Airport: Sacramento Metropolitan
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Part 125 operator
- Location: 38.5816° N, 121.4944° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Sacramento, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.5816&lon=-121.4944&mi=10
- Aircraft: N490ST (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BAC 111*
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 12,500 total, 2,300 in this make and model, 70 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981209042289I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-5) WHILE TAXIING FROM PARKING AREA THE AIRCRAFTS RIGHT WING STRUCK THE NOSE CONE OF A PARKED AND UNOCCUPIED AMD-50 AIRCRAFT. DAMAGE TO THE PARKED AIRCRAFT WAS A DENT IN THE NOSE CONE AFT OF THE RADOME. DAMAGE TO TAXING AIRCRAFT CONSISTED OF BROKEN POSITION LITE COVER, CRACKED AND TORN SKIN ON LOWER SECTION OF WING TIP. CRACK IS 6 INCHES LONG. AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF AIRPORTS WITH LIGHTED WAND WAS STANDING AT THE NOSE OF THE AMD-50 AIRCRAFT. THE EMPLOYEE STATED THAT HE SIGNALED THE PILOT IN THE AIRCRAFT TO STOP, PILOT STATED HE DID NOT SEE THE STOP SIGNAL.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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