- Date
- May 19, 2012
- Place
- Riga, Latvia
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- YL-BBNBoeing 737
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Unknown or undetermined
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 83874
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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
On May 19, 2012, at approximately 0819 locat time, a Boeing 737-500 operated by AirBaltic was climbing after departure from Riga International Airport, and was cleared by ATC to climb to FL230. At the same time, an Airbus 320, operated by Aeroflot perfromed a go-around due to unstabilized approach. During the go around, the minimum separation between the two aircraft was 2.2 NM.The incident is being investigated by the Transport Accident & Incident Investigation Bureau of LATVIA. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative as the state of manufacture of the aircraft under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13. All inquiries should be directed to the AIIB of Latvia at the following: Transport Accident & Incident Investigation Bureau of the LATVIA tel: 371 67288140 Fax 37167283339 e-mail: taiib@taiib.gov.lv
Aircraft
- Registration
- YL-BBN
- Reported as
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Operator
- Air Baltic
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport