- Date
- January 10, 2016, 22:00 local (Jan 11, 2016, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Carolina, PR
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N87SABeech B200
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) shutdown: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20160110007519A
- Case key
- 93507
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to actuate the parking brake prior to leaving his seat, resulting in substantial damage.
Findings · 3
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 pilot reported that he parked the airplane and shut down the requisite systems, then proceeded to the back of the airplane to allow the passengers to disembark and set the wheel chocks. He reported that as he began to open the cabin door, he realized that the airplane was rolling backwards. The airplane rolled into the wall of the airport terminal and the left and right elevators sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane or any of its systems that would have prevented normal operation. According to the manufacturer's pilot operating handbook and the operator, the accident airplane was equipped with a parking brake. The operator reported that their maintenance department inspected the parking brake system after the accident, and in accordance with the Beech B200 service manual and found no failures or anomalies.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he parked the airplane and shut down the requisite systems, then proceeded to the back of the airplane to allow the passengers to disembark and set the wheel chocks. He reported that as he began to open the cabin door, he realized that the airplane was rolling backwards. The airplane rolled into the wall of the airport terminal and the left and right elevators sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or anomalies with the airplane or any of its systems that would have prevented normal operation. According to the manufacturer's pilot operating handbook and the operator, the accident airplane was equipped with a parking brake. The operator reported that their maintenance department inspected the parking brake system after the accident, and in accordance with the Beech B200 service manual and found no failures or anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N87SA
- Reported as
- Beech B200 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB-1089
- Built
- 1982
- Airframe hours
- 12,545.6
- Engines
- Pratt and Whitney PT6A-42, 850 horsepower, turbo propPratt and Whitney PT6A-42, 850 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Island Airlines, LLC, doing business as Island Airways
- Registered owner
- Liberty Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- December 17, 2015
- Departed
- TISX · St. Croix
- Destination
- TJSJ · Carolina, PR
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- TJSJ · San Juan Luis Munoz Internatio, runway 10, 8,610 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 15, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- None
- Flight hours
- 9,597 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 9,597 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- TJSJ, 1 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 13, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.