Accident · 2006-08-27
What the record says
- Event date
- 2006-08-27
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Bombardier, Inc. CRJ-100 (N431CA)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- Comair Limited Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- COMAIR INC
Probable cause
the flight crewmembers's failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversation during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness, and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control clearances.
Source: NTSB case DCA06MA064Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
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