- Date
- October 20, 1992, 20:21 local (Oct 21, 1992, 01:21 UTC)
- Place
- Dfw Airport, TX
- Injuries
- 18 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N404AEBritish Aerospace 3100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18603
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain visual lookout and clearance. The congested ramp was a factor.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - other
Airport facilities,ramp facilities - congestedFactor
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Clearance - not maintainedCause
Analysis
The airplane was taxiing for takeoff when it struck a parked ground power unit on the ramp.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N404AE
- Reported as
- British Aerospace 3100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 646
- Airframe hours
- 13,736
- Engine
- Garrett TPE 331-10VF, 1,040 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Metro Airlines, doing business as American Eagle
- Registered owner
- United States Trust Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · October 16, 1992 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- DFW
- Destination
- ABI · Abilene, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DFW · Dfw International
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 8,000 as pilot in command · 163 in the last 90 days · 51 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DFW, 1 nm away