RAMP OP ACFT PARKING PROC. WINGTIP STRIKE BY A DC9-40 CARGO ACFT ON A LEAR 60 PARKED ON THE RAMP. NIGHT OP IN THE RAIN. PIC WAS FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY WING WALKER AND MARSHALLER.

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ON TAXI IN OUR ACFT WAS TO PARK AT A GA RAMP ON THE N SIDE OF PVD ARPT AND WE WERE IN MODERATE RAIN WITH WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON. AS WE APCHED THE RAMP FROM THE W; GOING E; OUR GND MARSHALLERS WERE GIVING US THE SIGN FOR TAXI OK BTWN A LEAR 60 AND A B727. AS WE APCHED THE LEAR 60; OUR WING WALKER ON THE CAPT'S SIDE GAVE AN EMER STOP SIGNAL AND WE STOPPED. THE GND MARSHALLER THEN WALKED OUT OF MY SIGHT ON THE CAPT'S SIDE. A FEW MOMENTS LATER; THE CAPT SAID HE WAS GIVEN A MARSHALLED TURN TO THE R AND PROCEEDED TO TURN R WHILE I KEPT MY EYES OPEN ON THE R FOR CLRNC OF OTHER ACFT AND THE B727. AFTER WE HAD REACHED OUR PARKING SPOT WE WERE INFORMED THAT WE HAD HIT THE LEAR'S WINGLET AND MOVED THE ACFT. I BELIEVE THE MODERATE RAIN (GND MARSHALLERS HAD ON HOODED RAIN GEAR); LACK OF EXPERIENCE OF GND PERSONNEL; PARKING ACFT TOO CLOSE; AND MAYBE INTO CLEARWAY OF TXWY AND NIGHT TIME CONDITIONS WERE THE MAJOR FACTORS IN THIS INCIDENT. I ALSO THINK THE LACK OF EXPERIENCE OF THE GND MARSHALLER (NOT KNOWING HOW HIGH THE LEAR 60'S WINGLET); GND TRYING TO TURN US INSTEAD OF SHUTTING US DOWN AND THEN TUGGING US OUT OF THE WAY; LED TO THIS INCIDENT. AS IT IS IN THE FREIGHT BUSINESS; EMPHASIS IS PUT ON TIME; AND JUDGEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS AND THE RAIN; IN NOT WANTING TO TAKE THE TIME TO BE SAFER. I THINK THE BEST CORRECTIVE ACTION IS THE SAFEST ACTION -- IN THIS CASE; IF THE MARSHALLER WAS NOT SURE; THEN HE SHOULD HAVE SHUT US DOWN AND HAD THE ACFT TOWED.