| Date: | Thursday 12 December 1996 |
| Time: | 16:37 |
| Type: |  Avro RJ100 |
| Owner/operator: | Crossair |
| Registration: | HB-IXR |
| MSN: | E3281 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1996 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming LF507-1F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 35 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH) -
 Switzerland
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| Phase: | Pushback / towing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
| Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft collided with a truck during pushback. The APU and the elevator were damaged. No one was hurt.
CAUSE: "The accident was due to lack of attention of the supervisor during pushback of the airliner, which resulted in a collision with a wrongly parked, unlit catering vehicle."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 January 2004 | HB-IXR | Swiss International Air Lines | Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF) |  |
non | |
| Runway incursion with a/c (no oollision) | ||||||
| 26 January 2006 | HB-IXR | Swiss European Air Lines | 0 | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) | |
non |
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