- Date
- March 9, 2023, 17:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bismark, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N46CVBeech C90
- Defining event
- Taxi-to runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA - Fargo FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230309007249A
- Case key
- 106860
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The ground vehicle driver’s failure to see and maintain clearance from the airplane while conducting ground operations.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The commercial pilot stated that a vehicle struck the right wing of the airplane as he was taxiing from the non-movement area for departure. Surveillance video showed a ground service vehicle drive across the ramp and into the right wing of the airplane. The driver of the ground vehicle stated that as she was starting to speed up on the ramp, the airplane came into view. The driver attempted to stop but slid on the ice and came to rest under the airplane’s right wing. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot stated there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46CV
- Reported as
- Beech C90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ-568
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 13,607.8
- Engines
- Pratt and Whitney PT6A-21, turbo propPratt and Whitney PT6A-21, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Executive Air Taxi Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 9, 2023
- Destination
- KMOT · Minot, ND
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BIS · Bismark Municipal Airport
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Onboard weather
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 7, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 92 in this make and model · 1,059 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 1.5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.36 inHg
- Observed at
- KBIS
- METAR
- KBIS 092315Z 02009KT 1 1/2SM -SN BKN028 OVC040 M06/M09 A3036 RMK AO2 P0000 T10611089
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 24.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.