- Date
- March 3, 1988, 14:20 local (18:20 UTC)
- Place
- St Thomas
- Injuries
- 14 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- VPLVNHawker Siddeley HS-748
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32147
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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.
Propeller blast or jet exhaust/suction
Information - inadequateCause
Dispatch procedures - inadequateCause
Analysis
The captain of air bvi flight BL-222 stated as they were waiting for clearance to taxi, they encountered the jet blast from American airlines flight 626 as it taxied from its gate. The rudder of the HS-748 was dmgd. The American airlines aircraft was unaware that anyone was directly behind them when they started to taxi.
Aircraft
- Registration
- VPLVN
- Reported as
- Hawker Siddeley HS-748
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1538
- Airframe hours
- 35,302
- Engine
- Rolls-Royce 533, 2,200 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Registered owner
- Air Bvi. Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 20, 1987
- Departed
- STT · St. Thomas
- Destination
- EIS · Tortola
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- STT · Charlotte Amalie, runway 28, 5,358 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,918 total · 2,165 in this make and model · 9,900 as pilot in command · 148 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 8° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STT