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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV · New Orleans, LA · February 3, 2013

Date: February 3, 2013 · 23:00 local
Place: New Orleans, LA
Airport: Lakefront Airport
Phase of flight: Taxi
Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator: DVYA
Collision: Collision on the ground
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N763DB
Reported as: Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
Reported engine: Rolls-Royce TAY-611SER
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificates: Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours: 12,300 total3,750 in this make and model35 in the last 90 days

N763DBRegistered now · Gulfstream Aerospace G-IVS/N 1114 · Built 1989 Airframe modelGulfstream Aerospace G-IV Engine modelRolls-Royce TAY-611SERTurbo-fan

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

During night taxi at knew airport during super bowl ramp control direction, aircraft left winglet contacted left winglet of a parked unlighted ga-iv parked in temporary parking area. Parking area was unlighted and taxiing ga-iv did not see the aircraft until contact was made. Taxiing aircraft was slightly right of taxi way centerline , away from parked aircraft, when left winglet of taxiing aircraft contacted the left winglet of parked aircraft. Both aircrafts left winglets suffered minor damage.

As the FAA filed it

DURING NIGHT TAXI AT KNEW AIRPORT DURING SUPER BOWL RAMP CONTROL DIRECTION, AIRCRAFT LEFT WINGLET CONTACTED LEFT WINGLET OF A PARKED UNLIGHTED GA-IV PARKED IN TEMPORARY PARKING AREA. PARKING AREA WAS UNLIGHTED AND TAXIING GA-IV DID NOT SEE THE AIRCRAFT UNTIL CONTACT WAS MADE. TAXIING AIRCRAFT WAS SLIGHTLY RIGHT OF TAXI WAY CENTERLINE , AWAY FROM PARKED AIRCRAFT, WHEN LEFT WINGLET OF TAXIING AIRCRAFT CONTACTED THE LEFT WINGLET OF PARKED AIRCRAFT. BOTH AIRCRAFTS LEFT WINGLETS SUFFERED MINOR DAMAGE.