Narrative:

We just landed and had taken the high-speed taxiway and was holding short of [another] runway. After several minutes; tower cleared us to cross [the runway]. As my first officer and I looked to the right and left to make sure everything was clear; I noticed a very bright light on my left; slightly behind me that caught my attention. The light was rapidly getting brighter and larger when soon I realized that it was the taxi light of another aircraft on the taxiway moving fast towards us. In a matter of seconds; the plane (which I identified as an erj-145) approaching us began to make a hard left turn; but it appeared to be skidding sideways towards us. I would say the rate of closure appeared to be approximately 40 mph. I immediately jammed the throttles to the gust lock and accelerated our plane as fast as I could. The takeoff warning horn sounded and I kept my eyes on the plane coming from our 8 o'clock position. I watched as the other plane passed behind us and out of view; but still I clenched my body up as I thought there was no doubt that the other plane would clip us. Soon after; we heard the other plane radio to tower declaring that they had lost the use of their brakes. We continued to our gate and parked the aircraft without further incident. Something to note was that the rampers refused to deplane us because they were afraid the ramp area was too slippery for the passengers to walk on and wanted us to wait until the pathway was salted. The airport was mostly wet with patches of standing water or ice. The temperature was just below freezing.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Dash 8 Captain and an EMB-145 FO reported their near-collision on the ground when the EMB-145 experienced braking issues on black ice.

Narrative: We just landed and had taken the high-speed taxiway and was holding short of [another] runway. After several minutes; Tower cleared us to cross [the runway]. As my First Officer and I looked to the right and left to make sure everything was clear; I noticed a very bright light on my left; slightly behind me that caught my attention. The light was rapidly getting brighter and larger when soon I realized that it was the taxi light of another aircraft on the taxiway moving fast towards us. In a matter of seconds; the plane (which I identified as an ERJ-145) approaching us began to make a hard left turn; but it appeared to be skidding sideways towards us. I would say the rate of closure appeared to be approximately 40 MPH. I immediately jammed the throttles to the gust lock and accelerated our plane as fast as I could. The takeoff warning horn sounded and I kept my eyes on the plane coming from our 8 o'clock position. I watched as the other plane passed behind us and out of view; but still I clenched my body up as I thought there was no doubt that the other plane would clip us. Soon after; we heard the other plane radio to Tower declaring that they had lost the use of their brakes. We continued to our gate and parked the aircraft without further incident. Something to note was that the rampers refused to deplane us because they were afraid the ramp area was too slippery for the passengers to walk on and wanted us to wait until the pathway was salted. The airport was mostly wet with patches of standing water or ice. The temperature was just below freezing.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.