# NTSB DCA00WA076: Boeing 737-200, Patna, India, July 17, 2000

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Foreign investigation
- Date: July 17, 2000, 01:04 local (01:04 UTC)
- Place: Patna, India
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 60 fatal, 10 serious, 1 minor; on the ground: 5 fatal, 5 serious
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 49861
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA00WA076
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/49861/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA00WA076

## Aircraft

- Registration: VT-EGD (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Boeing 737-200
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 22280
- Airframe hours: 44087
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Airlines Allied Sevices Ltd, doing business as Alliance Air
- Registered owner: Indian Airlines Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: CALCUTTA
- Destination: New Delhi
- Flight plan: Unknown
- Airport: Patna India, runway 25, 6,858 × 138 ft, macadam

## Weather

- Conditions: Instrument (IMC), Not reported
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature: 86 °F, dew point 81 °F
- Altimeter: 29.44 inHg

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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