Embraer EMB 145XR N16147

Summary

On 13 September 2014 at about 01:26 local time, a Embraer EMB 145XR registered N16147, operated by ExpressJet Airlines, was involved in an accident near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 38 people were on board. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

13 September 2014 at 01:26

Classification

Accident

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

Chicago O-HAre (KORD)

Coordinates

41.9733, -87.8992

Aircraft

Embraer EMB 145XR

Registration

N16147

Category

Airplane

Year built

2003

Engines

2

Operator

ExpressJet Airlines

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Sioux Falls → Chicago

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

Unk

Light

Night

NTSB number

DCA14CA170

Injuries not recorded.

The tractor driver's failure to give way to the taxiing airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On September 12, 2014, about 2026 central daylight time, an ExpressJet ERJ145XR, dba United Express flight 4528, N16147, was struck by a United Airlines baggage tractor while taxiing to the gate at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD), Chicago, Illinois. There were no injuries to the 37 passengers and crew members onboard the airplane and the airplane sustained substantial damage. The tractor driver received minor injuries. The flight was operating under 14 CFR Part 121 as a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Joe Foss Field (KSFD), Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to KORD. According to the operator, the flight had just landed and was taxiing on taxi-way A from the east and had just switched to United Ground Control.  The flight was instructed to taxi from A to the alley and transition to the "B" side "J"-line and taxi to gate E2. As the airplane entered the United Airlines control area, a baggage tractor drove into the path of the taxiing airplane on the roadway between the gates C-29 and B-16. The airplane was unable to stop and the right wing struck the moving baggage tractor, knocking it onto its right side. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and right leading edge.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.