LAX07IA008 · Gulfstream G1159B
Gulfstream G1159B · Incident: on ground/water collision with terrain/water while taxiing
From Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) to Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport (BUR)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX07IA008
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Gulfstream G1159B
- Aircraft type
- Gulfstream G1159
- 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
- N113AR
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, NVTo Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport (BUR), Burbank, CA
- 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 · from 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
- On ground/water collision with terrain/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Planning/decision, improper
- Pilot in command › Procedures/directives, not followed
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
During the landing rollout to taxi, the pilot allowed the airplane to enter the EMAS (Engineered Materials Arresting System) area, and the airplane became stuck approximately 35 feet into the EMAS area. The touchdown and rollout were normal. As the pilot prepared to turn onto the taxiway, he turned onto what appeared to be pavement marked with yellow chevrons, to facilitate the turn. The pilot reported that he had in fact observed the yellow chevrons, but continued onto the EMAS area anyway to facilitate the turn onto the taxiway. Advisory Circular 105-5340-1J, Standards for Airport Markings, section 16 as well as the Aeronautical Information Manual Chapter 2, sections 2-3-2 and 2-3-3, identifies the yellow chevron area as unusable for landing, takeoff, and taxiing. The Jeppesen approach chart incorrectly identified the EMAS area as being on the opposite end of the runway. As a result of the investigation, Jeppesen changed the airport chart to correctly depict the EMAS location at the airport.
Probable cause
The pilot's improper decision to continue to taxi onto an unusable taxi area clearly marked as such. A finding in the accident was the incorrectly depicted EMAS area on the approach chart.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX07IA008
- Event ID
- 20061101X01596
- Case number
- LAX07IA008
- 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: investigation status, coordinates, damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e77c0875a4645a1c5c47992430ddf318cc12d48c1bca5353506396f0b3aceb0f; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:19:20.506Z.