- Date
- October 4, 2010, 17:22 local (21:22 UTC)
- Place
- New York, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 52 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N414ZWBombardier CL-600-2B19
- Defining event
- Standing: Miscellaneous/other
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 16, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- Air Wsconsin Airlines
- Case key
- 77501
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 passenger's loss of balance while deplaning.
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
According to the airline's director of safety, the airplane arrived at the gate and the engines were shut down. While deplaning via the forward entry door stairs, a passenger lost her balance and fell to the ground. The passenger fractured her wrist as a result of the fall.
Factual narrative
According to the airline's director of safety, the airplane arrived at the gate and the engines were shut down. While deplaning via the forward entry door stairs, a passenger lost her balance and fell to the ground. The passenger fractured her wrist as a result of the fall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N414ZW
- Reported as
- Bombardier CL-600-2B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7586
- Engines
- GE CF34 SERIES, 9,140 lbs thrust, turbo fanGE CF34 SERIES, 9,140 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporations, doing business as US Airways Express
- Registered owner
- US Bank Na Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- GSO · Greensboro, NC
- Destination
- LGA · New York, NY
- Airport
- LGA · La Guardia 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 17, 2010
- Flight hours
- 6,900 total · 4,303 in this make and model · 5,520 as pilot in command · 209 in the last 90 days · 42 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 13, 2010
- Flight hours
- 3,800 total · 3,507 in this make and model · 1,925 as pilot in command · 206 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- LGA
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 3, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 870 KB in all.