# Incident 20070523012819I: Dorner DO328100, Santa Ana, CA, May 23, 2007

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 23, 2007, 10:25 local time
- Place: Santa Ana, CA
- Airport: John Wayne Airport-Orange Coun
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Other Ground Ops
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: HKGA
- Location: 33.6757° N, 117.8682° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at JOHN WAYNE/ORANGE COUNTY (SNA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.6757&lon=-117.8682&mi=10
- Aircraft: N473PS, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N473PS-2016-08-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Dornier Luftfahrt DO 328-100 (registry code 2996000, https://openairdocs.org/model/dornier-luftfahrt-do-328-100) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PW119B (registry code 52133, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw119b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: DORNER DO328100
- People aboard: 33
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070523012819I

## Narrative

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

(-23) GROUND POWER UNIT OPERATOR FAILED TO COMPLETELY REMOVE PLUG FROM EXTERNAL POWER RECEPTACLE. UPON DRIVING AWAY WITH GROUND POWER UNIT CORD STILL ATTACHED, CORD WAS FORCED UNDER THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT AND SUBSEQUENTLY DAMAGED NOSE LANDING GEAR DOOR ACTUATOR MECHANISM. PILOT INSPECTED EXTERNAL POWER RECEPTACLE AREA WITH NO APPARENT DAMAGE. DAMAGE TO NOSE LANDING GEAR DOOR WAS NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL RETURN TO AIRPORT FOR NOISE AND VIBRATION IN NOSE AREA.

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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