# Incident 20070716825439I: Boeing 737524, Chicago, IL, July 16, 2007

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 16, 2007, 09:35 local time
- Place: Chicago, IL
- Airport: Chicago Midway International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: CALA
- Location: 41.7856° N, 87.7527° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CHICAGO MIDWAY INTL (MDW), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.7856&lon=-87.7527&mi=10
- Aircraft: N32626, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N32626-2014-05-28) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 737-524 (registry code 1384721, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-524) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: CFM International CFM56 series (registry code 13802, https://openairdocs.org/engine/cfm-international-cfm56-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737524
- Reported engine: GE CFM563B1
- People aboard: 119
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 12,660 total, 389 in this make and model, 254 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070716825439I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON MONDAY JULY 16, 2007 THE ORD-FSDO RECEIVED A PHONE MESSAGE FROM MIDWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT OPERATIONS THAT A CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 737, FLIGHT #1196 HIT A JET WAY. INSPECTION ON AIRCRAFT N32626, SERIAL NUMBER 27530 REVEALED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS BEING MARSHALLED INTO GATE C-2 UNDER ITS OWN POWER AND IMPACTED THE BOTTOM CORNER OF THE JET WAY CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE #1 ENGINE NOSE COWL, A NICK TO ONE OF THE FAN BLADES AND TWO SMALL GOUGES IN THE ACOUSTICAL LINER OF THE NOSE COWL. INSPECTORS INTERVIEWED ONE OF THE TWO WING WALKERS WHO SAID THAT THEY WERE USING HAND SIGNALS TO MARSHAL THE AIRCRAFT INTO THE SPOT AND THEY WERE GIVING THE HEAD MARSHALLER THE STOP SIGNAL BECAUSE THEY COULD TELL THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOT BEING MARSHALLED IN ON THE CORRECT LEAD IN LINE, BUT HE WAS NOT WATCHING THEM. THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES STATED THAT THE MARSHALLER DID IN FACT LEAD THE AIRCRAFT IN ON THE INCORRECT LINE AND THAT IS WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE JET WAY.

## Other reports on N32626 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20060116030699A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060116030699A), Jan 16, 2006: Boeing 737524 (N32626), El Paso, TX, Minor damage, 1 fatal. (-23) On January 16, 2006, Continental airlines flight 1515, a Boeing 737-524 airplane, N32626 was preparing for departure from El Paso, international airport…

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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