# Incident 20020910025279I: Boeing 737300, Boston, MA, September 10, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 10, 2002, 16:34 local time
- Place: Boston, MA
- Airport: General Edward Lawrence Logan
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: F3LA
- Location: 42.3629° N, 71.0064° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GENERAL EDWARD LAWRENCE LOGAN INTL (BOS), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.3629&lon=-71.0064&mi=10
- Aircraft: EICHH (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737300
- People aboard: 60
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 17,700 total, 2,750 in this make and model, 195 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020910025279I

## Narrative

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

(-23)DISTRIBUTION: ORIGINAL COPY ANE-200, NE01 SPM, NE-01 FILE CHDO, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DENVER FSDO, NM03 26805 EAST 68TH AVE, SUITE 200, DENVER, CO 80249-6361. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED A BOSTON US AIRWAYS MECHANIC MARSHALED A FRONTIER AIRLINES AIRCRAFT INTO TERMINAL B, GATE B. THE #2 ENGINE NACELLE HIT A PARKED BELT LOADER THAT WAS INSIDE THE SAFETY ZONE. THE MECHANIC STATED THAT "HE CLEARED THE AREA PRIOR TO THEAIRCRAFT ARRIVING AND THAT WHILE HE WAS WAITING FOR THE ARRIVING AIRCRAFT HE WENT INSIDE THE TERMINAL FOR A MOMENT. WHILE HE WAS GONE SOMEONE PARKED A BELT LOADER JUST INSIDE THE SAFETY ZONE." THE LEFT REAR CORNER OF THE BELT LOADER PUNCTURED THE #2 ENGINE NACELLE AT APPROXIMATELY THE 7:00 O'CLOCK POSITION, APPROXIMATELY THREE INCHES IN DIAMETER. THE MARSHALLER STATED "HE DID NOT NOTICE THE BELT LOADER'S POSITION PRIOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE AIRCRAFT.

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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