- Date
- January 14, 2012
- Place
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Injuries
- 191 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N790ANBoeing 777
- Defining event
- Taxi: Miscellaneous/other
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 82723
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Factual narrative
The Brazilian Centro de Investigação e Prevenção deAcidentes Aeronáuticos (CENIPA) has notified the NTSB of an incident involving a Boeing 777 that occurred on January, 14, 2012. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the CENIPA investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacturer and Design of the airplane and State of Registration and the Operator. All investigative information will be released by the CENIPA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N790AN
- Reported as
- Boeing 777
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport; Standard, Normal
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Other investigations on N790AN · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.