# Evacuation

- Type: NTSB defining event
- NTSB code: 460
- CICTT category: Evacuation
- Defining event in: 10 cases
- In the sequence of: 103 cases
- Fatal cases: 0
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/460/cases.md
- Cases with it anywhere in the sequence: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/460/sequence.md
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/460

## Cases per year (defining / in the sequence)

- 2009: 0 / 3
- 2010: 0 / 1
- 2011: 0 / 4
- 2012: 0 / 3
- 2013: 1 / 2
- 2014: 0 / 3
- 2015: 1 / 3
- 2016: 1 / 8
- 2017: 0 / 1
- 2018: 0 / 2
- 2020: 1 / 1
- 2021: 1 / 1
- 2022: 0 / 4
- 2023: 1 / 12
- 2024: 0 / 18
- 2025: 4 / 23
- 2026: 0 / 14

## Phase of flight

- Standing: 4 cases
- Taxi-from runway: 2 cases
- Taxi: 2 cases
- Other: 1 cases
- Pushback/tow-engine start-up: 1 cases

## In the probable cause of these cases

- [Air quality/dust/smoke](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/03041025) (Environmental issues): 1 cases
- [Interpretation/understanding](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063530) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Lack of communication](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Task performance, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02060000) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Identification/recognition](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041510) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Illness/injury](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02012010) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Aircraft capability, general](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01061000) (Aircraft): 1 cases
- [Buffet/galleys](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01022530) (Aircraft): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83)](https://openairdocs.org/model/mcdonnell-douglas-dc-9-83-md-83): 1 cases
- [Boeing 757-351](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-351): 1 cases
- [Boeing 757-232](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-232): 1 cases
- [Boeing 737-990ER](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-990er): 1 cases
- [Boeing 737-7BD](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-7bd): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB DCA25LA308](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25LA308), Aug 31, 2025: Airbus Canada BD500 (C-GYLQ), Denver, CO, no damage. Probable cause: Unidentified burned debris in an aft galley oven, which generated smoke and odor in the cabin and led to an air turnback and subsequent evacuation, during which a serious injury occurred.
- [NTSB DCA25WA250](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25WA250), Jul 4, 2025: Boeing 737 (G-RUKN), Palma, Spain, no damage
- [NTSB DCA25LA185](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25LA185), Apr 17, 2025: Boeing 737 (N7724A), Houston, TX, no damage. Probable cause: Serious Injury to a flight attendant sustained during an evacuation.
- [NTSB DCA25LA084](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA25LA084), Jan 10, 2025: Boeing 757 (N589NW), Atlanta, GA, minor damage. Probable cause: Substantial injury to a passenger sustained during evacuation.
- [NTSB DCA23WA335](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA335), Jun 23, 2023: Boeing 777 (B-KPQ), Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong SAR China, no damage
- [NTSB DCA21LA208](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA21LA208), Aug 24, 2021: Boeing 737-990ER (N479AS), SeaTac, WA, no damage. Probable cause: The passenger’s use of the evacuation slide resulted in the serious injury.
- [NTSB DCA20WA084](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA20WA084), Jan 1, 2020: Boeing 757 (N687DL), Mexico City, Mexico, incident, no damage
- [NTSB DCA16WA097](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA16WA097), Feb 23, 2016: Boeing 737 (JA322J), Chitose, Japan, no damage
- [NTSB DCA15CA129](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA15CA129), Jun 8, 2015: Mcdonnell Douglas DC 9 83(MD-83) (N869GA), St Petersburg, FL, no damage. Probable cause: evacuation of the aircraft due to reported, but unverified, aircraft condition and poor communication between Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting personnel and the flight crew.
- [NTSB DCA13WA143](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA13WA143), Aug 23, 2013: Boeing 757 (G-FCLK), Gatwick, United Kingdom, incident, no damage

NTSB has coded findings and defining events since 2008; earlier cases used its older occurrence and cause codes and aren't counted.

Findings: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings.md. Defining events: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events.md. Phases of flight: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases.md. Every investigation, filtered by finding, event, phase, state, year or model: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb.md (for example ?state=MI&fatal=1).

NTSB's definitions: Accident and incident, 49 CFR 830.2 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-VIII/part-830/subpart-A/section-830.2), CICTT occurrence categories (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/OccurrenceCategoryDefinitions.pdf), CICTT phases of flight (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/PhaseofFlightDefinitions.pdf), and NTSB coding manual, before 2008 (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). NTSB publishes no definitions for its findings, only their names.

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