IAD97LA057 · Fokker F-27
Fokker F-27 · Accident: on ground/water collision with object while standing
From Atlantic City International Airport (ACY) to Richmond International Airport (RIC)
Event
- NTSB case
- IAD97LA057
- 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
- Airline
- 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
Fokker F-27
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F-27
- 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
- N280MA
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Atlantic City International Airport (ACY), NJTo Richmond International Airport (RIC), Richmond, VA
- 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 121: Air Carrier
- 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
- 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
- On ground/water collision with object
- 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
- Other person › Miscellaneous, not complied with
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Atlantic City, NJ, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
While taxiing, the pilot observed a van travelling in reverse motion, moving from the pilot's left to right. The pilot signaled the van with the landing lights to attract the driver's attention, but the van passed the nose of the airplane. The pilot stopped the airplane, and the van continued and struck the right rear fuselage of the airplane. The investigation revealed that the driver had exited the running van to work on another airplane, without setting the parking brake. The van's transmission had been replaced the day of the accident, and the indicator for the gear selection was missing from the steering column.
Probable cause
Failure of the driver of the van to set the parking brake before exiting the van.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record IAD97LA057
- Event ID
- 20001208X07726
- Case number
- IAD97LA057
- 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 1997-04-02.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 93b5359f9d16842aea02822870ec6e271891700d64a0878f6cb8b315bfe6a7ba; retrieved 2026-09-18T17:40:11.001Z.