ENG15WA016 · Fokker F28 - 0070
Fokker F28 - 0070 · Incident: ground collision while taxiing
From Teesside International Airport (EGNV) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (EHAM)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG15WA016
- 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
- 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Fokker F28 - 0070
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F28
- 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
- PH-WXC
- Operator
- KLM Cityhopper
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Teesside International Airport (EGNV), DarlingtonTo Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (EHAM), Amsterdam
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- 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
- Not recorded
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On March 05, 2015, about 1215 LCL, a Fokker F28, PH-WXC, On March 5, 2015, a Fokker F28 experienced a braking failure while on the ramp and struck a ground power unit (GPU) at Schiphol Airport (EHAM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The incident is being investigated by the Dutch Safety Board. All inquiries should be directed to:
Dutch Safety Board
P.O. Box 95404
2509 CK The HagueNetherlands
Website: www.safetyboard.nl
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the Dutch Safety Board in The Netherlands.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG15WA016
- Event ID
- 20150414X95014
- Case number
- ENG15WA016
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3479f652b5e845042febd2702197f2682d82f6ef08ad7038b82892f1bc91251d; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:13:45.902Z.