- Date
- January 6, 1988, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- HRAKZDouglas C-118A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32123
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
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 - aircraft parked/standingFactor
Visual lookout - not maintainedCause
Light condition - dark nightFactor
Analysis
The plt stated that while taxiing in the ramp area he turned the aircraft to park it & inadvertantly struck the horizontal stabilizer of a parked aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- HRAKZ
- Reported as
- Douglas C-118A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 53-3271
- Airframe hours
- 13,000
- Engine
- P&W R-2800-52W, 2,550 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Rene Gonzalez
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1986 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- MHTG · Tegucigalpa, OF
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MIA · Miami International
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33,000 total · 10,000 in this make and model · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 70° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA