Aero Mexico Boeing 777-2Q8 incident
Boeing 777-2Q8 · Incident
From Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) to Black Diamond/Flying R Ranch Airport (GIG)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW08WA090
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
Boeing 777-2Q8
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 777
- 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
- N774AM
- Operator
- Aero Mexico
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)To Black Diamond/Flying R Ranch Airport (GIG), Rio de Janeiro
- 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
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as the NTSB recorded them, without a stated acquisition method; they lie within 50 km of Mexico City, the place the record names, and are not otherwise checked.
NTSB narrative
On February 25, 2008, at 0130 central standard time, a Boeing 777-200, N774AM, was damaged while taxiing from the new terminal 2 to runway 05R Licenciado Benito Juarez International Airport, Mexico City D.F., in the Republic of Mexico. The passenger airplane, serial number 28689, is owned by International Lease Finance Corporation, Los Angeles, California and operated by Aeromexico of Mexico City, Mexico. THe flight was initiating an international scheduled passenger flight destined for Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. None of crew and passengers were injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight.
The airplane was cleared from ground control to taxi to runway 05R using taxiway B3 and A1. According to a statement made by the pilot he indicated that he had doubt about sufficient ground clearance for the Boeing 777 using taxiway B3. The Captain turned on to taxiway B3 and was on the centerline when he felt a "hard strike" and stopped the airplane. The left wing had stuck a light pole. The flight was originating at the time of the mishap.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Government of the Republic of Mexico. Any further information may be obtained from:
Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Trasportes Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC) Providencia 807, Cuarto Piso Colonia del Valle, Codigo Postal 03100 Mexico, D.F.
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from the DGAC of the Republic of Mexico.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW08WA090
- Event ID
- 20080404X00432
- Case number
- DFW08WA090
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (2)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. Reported ground fatalities are unverified; onboard allocation and event totals are withheld. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local date may be a day earlier.