- Date
- July 1, 2026, 14:18 local (18:18 UTC)
- Place
- Morrisville, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N356NEmbraer Executive EMB-500
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260701009139A
- Case key
- 203305
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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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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N356N
- Reported as
- Embraer Executive EMB-500 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 50000335
- Built
- 2014
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Nicholas Services LLC DBA, doing business as Nicholas Air
- Registered owner
- Nicholas Services LLC DBA
- Departed
- CLT · Charlotte, NC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- RDU · Raleigh-Durham International Airport
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, ADS-B
N356NRegistered now · Embraer Executive EMB-500Airframe modelEmbraer Executive EMB-500Engine modelPratt & Whitney Canada PW617F-E
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KRDU, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRDU 011751Z 18006KT 10SM FEW050 FEW250 33/21 A3009 RMK SLP182 T03330206 10333 20250
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.