- Date
- February 24, 2013, 17:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tunica, MS
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N164HQEmbraer ERJ 190-100 IGW
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Cabin safety event
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 18, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- Republic Airways, FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130224002729A
- Case key
- 86307
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 cabin attendant's failure to follow published guidance and checklists before and during landing.
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
At the conclusion of a repositioning flight with no passengers on board, a cabin attendant was seriously injured when she was struck by an unsecured galley cart during landing. Contrary to company training, guidance, and checklists, the cabin attendant was standing in the forward cabin, and the galley cart was left unsecured in the aft galley before touchdown. During landing and deceleration, the cart travelled the length of the cabin and collided with the unseated cabin attendant. According to the cabin attendant, the cart that struck her was part of her area of responsibility, and examination of the galley cart wheel locks and the galley cart receptacle locks after the accident revealed they operated as designed, with no anomalies noted.
Factual narrative
At the conclusion of a repositioning flight with no passengers on board, a cabin attendant was seriously injured when she was struck by an unsecured galley cart during landing. Contrary to company training, guidance, and checklists, the cabin attendant was standing in the forward cabin, and the galley cart was left unsecured in the aft galley prior to touchdown. During landing and deceleration, the cart travelled the length of the cabin and collided with the unseated cabin attendant. According to the cabin attendant, the cart that struck her was part of her area of responsibility, and examination of the galley cart wheel locks and the galley cart receptacle locks after the accident revealed they operated as designed, with no anomalies noted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N164HQ
- Reported as
- Embraer ERJ 190-100 IGW
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19000275
- Airframe hours
- 10,253
- Engines
- GE CF34-10E5A1, 18,820 lbs thrust, turbo fanGE CF34-10E5A1, 18,820 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Republic Airlines
- Registered owner
- Bank Of Utah Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 8, 2013
- Departed
- ISO · Kinston, NC
- Destination
- UTA · Tunica, MS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- UTA · Tunica Municipal, runway 17, 8,500 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 46
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,669 in this make and model
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 999,999 total · 977 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 9
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 27, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 963 KB 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.