American Eagle Airlines Embraer EMB-145LR incident
Embraer EMB-145LR · Incident: runway incursion (vehicle, aircraft or person) while taxiing
From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD) to Toronto Pearson International Airport (CYYZ)
Event
- NTSB case
- OPS12WA150
- 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
- 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
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Embraer EMB-145LR
- Aircraft type
- Embraer EMB-145
- 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
- N620AE
- Operator
- American Eagle Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD), Chicago, ILTo Toronto Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), Toronto
- 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
- Taxi · from runway
- 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
- Runway incursion (vehicle, aircraft or person)
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On November 18, 2011, American Eagle (EGF) flight 4125, an EMB-145, landed on runway 24L at Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ) and exited the runway at taxiway D4 with instructions to hold short of runway 24R. EGF4125 subsequently crossed the hold line for runway 24R before coming to a stop. Air Canada (ACA) flight 614, an A319, was cleared for takeoff on runway 24R, became airborne approximately 3,800 feet prior to D4, and overflew D4 about 600 feet above EGF4125.The incident is being investigated by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). The NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 as the state of the operator.
All requests for information should be directed to:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada 200 Promenade du Portage Place du Centre, 4th Floor Hull, Quebec K1A 1K8 Canada
Tel.: (1) 819-994-4252 Website: http://www.tsb.gc.ca
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record OPS12WA150
- Event ID
- 20111201X31832
- Case number
- OPS12WA150
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: 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: a3f256e5286dbecc96cbc8dcfd6abfa58dcf5821dc77f27c48e9d7d859666917; retrieved 2026-09-15T16:58:42.333Z.