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EMBRAER EMB-135American Eagle Airlines Inc
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0 timed factsthe recorder events from the FDR report, with the transcript's warnings, callouts, the words nearest each event and the final seconds — on one clock, as printed in each reportNo timed facts: this docket has no extracted recorder sequence and no transcript.
Recorder events without a clock time
- approximately 3 minutes 30 seconds after FDR began recordingThe airplane began to move
- approximately 1 minute after airplane began to moveMovement was halted
- following haltEngine 1 was then powered up to 25% N1
- after Engine 1 power upThe N1 of Engine 1 increased and the plane began to move again
- approximately 15 seconds after resuming movementAirplane came to an abrupt halt; airplane was turning to the right during this movement
- approximately 1 minute 15 seconds after airplane haltedEngine 1 was shut down
- during recordingThe pilot's brake pedals were being manipulated, whereas the copilot's brake pedals were not
Flight Data Recorder 10 - Specialist's Factual Report · 7 events extracted by claude-sonnet-5
How the Board coded the sequence
- Taxi-to runway: Ground collision
Precedents
8 closest casesranked by what happened, in the Board's words, and by the findings and occurrences it coded- EMBRAER EMB-120ER · SKYWEST AIRLINES INCSalt Lake City, UT
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - BOEING 747-212B · EVERGREEN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES INCRockford, IL
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CODallas, TX
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - DE HAVILLAND DHC-8 · Mesa AirlinesPhoenix, AZ
- ●Aircraft › Aircraft handling/service › Parking/securing
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COPhoenix, AZ
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - BOEING 737 · Southwest AirlinesDenver, CO
- ●Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Ground collision - EMBRAER S A ERJ 170-200 LR · Envoy Air Inc.Chicago, ILGround collision
- EMBRAER-EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE ERJ 170 200 LR · Compass AirlinesMinneapolis, MNGround collision
What the record says
a pattern, not a findingacross the 8 closest cases · 8 carry coded findings · 8 have a probable causeFindings the Board cited in those cases
- 6 of 8Personnel issues › Psychological › Attention/monitoringcited here too
- 2 of 8Aircraft › Aircraft handling/service › Towing and taxiing
- 2 of 8Personnel issues › Psychological › Perception/orientation/illusion
Occurrences it coded
- 8 of 8Ground collision
Set against the Board’s own findings for this case
Cited here, and common in the precedents
- Psychological › Attention/monitoring
Cited here, not seen in the precedents
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Common in the precedents, not cited here
- Aircraft handling/service › Towing and taxiing
- Psychological › Perception/orientation/illusion
A teaching device, not a verdict: what the record would have looked at, next to what the Board found.
In the Board’s words — the closest cases
- WPR09IA1232009-02-21 · EMBRAER EMB-120ER · SKYWEST AIRLINES INC
The flight crew's failure to maintain clearance from the stationary vehicle while taxiing.
- CEN09LA1142008-12-23 · BOEING 747-212B · EVERGREEN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES INC
The ground crew's failure to maintain clearance from the light pole while directing the airplane to parking.
- DFW08IA0742008-03-01 · BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
The failure of the taxiing flight crew to maintain an adequate clearance from the stationary airplane.
- WPR09LA2112009-04-21 · DE HAVILLAND DHC-8 · Mesa Airlines
The failure of ramp personnel and the flight crew to maintain clearance from ground equipment while taxiing. Contributing to the accident was the improper positioning of the ground equipment.
- WPR13IA2262013-05-10 · BOEING 737-7H4 · SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
The failure of the tug operator and wing walker to adequately monitor the environment during pushback of the airplane from the gate in preparation for flight, which led to the collision of the airplane with an adjacently parked airplane.
This is the pattern in the NTSB’s own record across similar accidents — which findings it cited, what it coded, what it recommended. It is drawn from the record, not written about this case, and it never assigns blame: investigations exist to prevent the next accident (ICAO Annex 13).