BFO95LA002 · Piper PA-28R-201T PA-28R-201
Electronic Industries Piper PA-28R-201T PA-28R-201 and Raritan Valley Flying School Grumman American AG-5B · Accident: collision between aircraft (not in flight) while standing
Event
- NTSB case
- BFO95LA002
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Aircraft 1 · Piper PA-28R-201T PA-28R-201
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N38869
- Operator
- Electronic Industries
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR)To Atlantic City International Airport (ACY), Atlantic City, NJ
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Standing · engine(s) operating
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Collision between aircraft (not in flight)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Grumman American AG-5B
- Aircraft type
- Grumman American AG-5
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1190L
- Operator
- Raritan Valley Flying School
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR), Syracuse, NYTo Princeton Airport (39N), Princeton, NJ
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Taxi · to runway
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Collision between aircraft (not in flight)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Syracuse, NY, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PA-28R, N38869, WAS HOLDING SHORT OF RWY 28, AT THE INTERSECTION OF TAXIWAYS HOTEL AND JULIET, FOR LANDING TRAFFIC. THE PILOT HAD TURNED OFF THE TAXI AND STROBE LIGHTS, AND HAD ADVISED THE TOWER OF THIS. THE AG-5B, N1190L, HAD ALSO BEEN CLEARED TO TAXI TO RWY 28, AND COLLIDED WITH THE PA-28R. THE AG-5B'S TAXI CLEARANCE FOLLOWED THE PA-28R'S TAXI CLEARANCE BY ABOUT 4 MIN. AT THE TIME THE AG-5B TAXI CLEARANCE, THE PILOT OF THE PA-28R HAD ALREADY REPORTED THAT HE WAS HOLDING SHORT WITH '...LIGHTS OFF.' THE AG-5B WAS STILL ON GROUND CONTROL FREQ.
Probable cause
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT OF THE AG-5B, N1190L, TO SEE AND AVOID THE PA-28R, N38869. THE DARK NIGHT WAS A FACTOR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record BFO95LA002
- Event ID
- 20001206X02384
- Case number
- BFO95LA002
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1994-10-10.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 5ce21ba7d3eb2fd850bed7be6a776de773255d22786c99e3dc8113296b23f24a; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:33:09.569Z.