- Date
- February 13, 1989, 19:08 local (Feb 14, 1989, 03:08 UTC)
- Place
- Los Alamitos, CA
- Injuries
- 70 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N141ACBritish Aerospace BAE 146-200A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 26257
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Probable cause
Inadequate coordination among the ATC controllers which resulted in their failure to maintain adequate radar separation of the two aircraft.
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.
Analysis
Due to failure of rwy lights at the destn (john wayne arpt) American airline flt 1262 (BAE-146) diverted to ontario, CA. While en route, it converged with british airways flt 282 (Boeing 747), which was climbing from the los angeles intl arpt on a flt to london, england. Subsequently, an opnl error occurred when the acft passed with a horizontal sepn of about 1.9 mi at the same alt. An investigation revealed that after coast TRACON rcvd control of flt 1262 from los angeles center. Flt 1262 was cleared into the airspace of los angeles TRACON without proper coordination among the 3 ATC control facilities. Specifically, there was incomplete and misunderstood coordination between ctlrs at los angeles center and coast TRACON; the harbor sector radar and handoff ctlrs at coast TRACON failed to comply with provisions of ltr of agreement between coast TRACON and ajacent facilities.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N141AC
- Reported as
- British Aerospace BAE 146-200A (BAE 146-20)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E2051
- Engine
- Lycoming ALF 502, 6,970 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Registered owner
- Meridian Trust Co. Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- SJC · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- ONT · Ontario, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,500 total · 1,800 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark