# Incident 19990302013539I: Boeing 727225, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 2, 1999, 08:33 local time
- Place: Salt Lake City, UT
- Airport: Salt Lake City International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Other Ground Ops
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: MYWA
- Location: 40.7884° N, 111.9778° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SALT LAKE CITY INTL (SLC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.7884&lon=-111.9778&mi=10
- Aircraft: N889MA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 727225
- People aboard: 7
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 5,500 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990302013539I

## Narrative

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

ON 3-2-99 AT APPROXIMATELY 0833 MST LE BUS #4101 DRIVEN BY MR. GULBRANSEN COLLIDED WITH THE LEFT WING TIP OF AIRCRAFT N889MA. THE AIRCRAFT WAS PARKED ON THE MILLION AIR RAMP WITH NO PASSENGERS ON BOARD THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE LEFT WING TIP. THE BUS WAS CARRING TWENTY PASSENGERS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORP THAT WERE TO BOARD THE AIRCRAFT N889MA. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE LEFT WING WAS LEAKING FUEL. THIS FUEL LEAK WAS INVESTIGATED BY AIRWORTHINESS INSPECTOR TOM CARMAN. INSPECTOR CARMAN NOTED THAT A SMALL AMOUNT OF FUEL HAD SEEPED FROM AROUND ONE OF THE COVERS OF THE #1 MAIN FUEL TANK. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ THE BUS DRIVER WAS GIVEN A SOBRIETY TEST BY THE SLC AIRPORT POLICE AND HE TESTED NEGATIVE. THE BUS DRIVER WILL BE GIVEN DRUG AND ALCOHOL TEST BY HIS COMPANY.

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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