- Date
- April 28, 2023, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dulles, VA · During Take-off Runway 19C
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N507GDGulfstream Aerospace GVII-G500
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Cabin safety event
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230428002489A
- Case key
- 107169
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 initiation of the takeoff while before the flight attendant had returned to her seat, which resulted in a serious injury during takeoff.
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 flight attendant reported that after informing the flight crew that the cabin was secure, she was making her way back to her seat when the flight began to take off. During the takeoff the flight attendant fell and was seriously injured. The flight continued to its destination where the flight attendant was checked by medical personnel. She then elected to return to the airport of origin, and once there was transported to the hospital where it was discovered that her ankle was fractured. Following the accident, the operator modified their procedures to require that the flight deck crew verify that cabin crew are seated prior to taxi.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N507GD
- Reported as
- Gulfstream Aerospace GVII-G500
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 72107
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 92
- Engines
- P&W Canada PW814GA, 15,429 lbs thrust, turbo fanP&W Canada PW814GA, 15,429 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- General Dynamics Corp
- Registered owner
- General Dynamics Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · April 28, 2023
- Destination
- WWD · Wildwood, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IAD · Washington Dulles International, runway 19C, 11,500 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Data recorder, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 5, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 6,959 total · 111 in this make and model · 4,531 as pilot in command
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 20, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 110 in this make and model · 4,800 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- IAD, 2 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KIAD 281352Z 08010G20KT 7SM RA OVC011 13/11 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP145 P0004 T01280111
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 29, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.9 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.