- Date
- December 18, 2009, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N515AEBombardier CL600 2C10
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) operating: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 23, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- FAA report
- 20091218052939A
- Case key
- 75196
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Probable cause
The fueler's falling asleep in the fueling truck with the truck in neutral and without the parking brake set, which allowed the truck to roll until it impacted the airplane.
Findings · 1
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 fuel truck driver indicated that he had been waiting 10-15 minutes for the flight to arrive and that the truck was in neutral with no emergency brake set. He stated that he had his foot on the brake but that he closed his eyes briefly and fell asleep and was unaware of what happened until the fuel truck collided with a parked airplane that had just arrived at the gate. One of the two flight attendants received a minor injury; there were no injuries to the other crew members or the passengers. The airplane received substantial damage to the aft portion of the fuselage where the fuel truck impacted.
Factual narrative
The fuel truck driver indicated that he had been waiting 10-15 minutes for the flight to arrive and that the truck was in neutral with no emergency brake set. He stated that he had his foot on the brake but that he closed his eyes briefly and fell asleep and was unaware of what happened until the fuel truck collided with a parked airplane that had just arrived at the gate. One of the two flight attendants received a minor injury; there were no injuries to the other crew members or the passengers. The airplane received substantial damage to the aft portion of the fuselage where the fuel truck impacted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N515AE
- Reported as
- Bombardier CL600 2C10 (700)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10121
- Engines
- GE CF34, turbo fanGE CF34, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Eagle
- Registered owner
- American Eagle
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HOU · Houston, TX
- Destination
- DFW · dallas, TX
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- DFW · Dallas/Fort Worth Intl Airport
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 22,812 total · 4,608 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 21, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.7 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.