Chautauqua Airlines Flight 6087
Embraer EMB 145LR and Alia-The Royal Jordanian Airline Airbus A340-212 · Accident: ground collision while taxiing
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA15FA004
- 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
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Aircraft 1 · 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
- N572RP
- Operator
- Chautauqua Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Charleston International Airport (CHS), Charleston, SCTo John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Jamaica, NY
- Aircraft age
- About 10 years (built 2004)
- 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
- 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
- Ground collision
- 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 · Airbus A340-212
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A340
- 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
- JY-AID
- Operator
- Alia-The Royal Jordanian Airline
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Queen Alia International Airport (AMM), AmmanTo John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Jamaica, NY
- 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 129: Foreign
- 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
- 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
- Ground collision
- 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
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The EMB-145 flight crew was instructed to taxi on taxiway A and hold short of taxiway Q. Upon reaching taxiway Q, the flight crew discussed the taxiway orientation and signage but incorrectly identified the start of taxiway Q and instead of holding short proceeded through the intersection onto taxiway Q before coming to a stop.
Approximately two minutes later, as the A340 was taxiing north on taxiway A, the A340 flight crew was aware of the proximity of the EMB-145 and discussed whether they had adequate clearance to continue. The A340 first officer stated that they were too close and advised the captain to stop. However, the A340 captain believed that there was enough clearance and continued on taxiway A striking the tail of the EMB-145 with the left wing of the A340.
Probable cause
The A340 captain's failure to maintain adequate clearance between his wing and the tail of the EMB-145.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA15FA004
- Event ID
- 20141006X73012
- Case number
- DCA15FA004
- 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: investigation status. 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: e6814ccb6ec0b5896ed7b27b01559ac5cf81dcaf2170129e6ca5c39e81197511; retrieved 2026-09-13T18:23:18.237Z.