# NTSB DCA13WA023: Boeing 737, Casablanca, Morocco, October 24, 2012

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Foreign investigation
- Date: October 24, 2012, 00:00 local (00:00 UTC)
- Place: Casablanca, Morocco
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 85635
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA13WA023
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/85635/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA13WA023

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,787 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md)

## Factual narrative

On October 24, 2012 a Boeing 737-800, registration CN-ROA experienced a nosewheel failure during taxiing after landing at the Casablanca / Mohammed V Airport. The airplane was operated by Royal Air Maroc as flight 471 from Tunis, Tunisia. There were no injuries. The flight crew reported that after a normal landing at Casablanca, the right hand nose wheel departed the nose landing gear assembly during taxi to gate. This incident is being investigated by the Morrocan AIB www.dac-maroc.gov.ma

## Aircraft

- Registration: CN-ROA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Boeing 737 (800)
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Royal Air Maroc
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: Tunis
- Destination: Casablanca
- Flight plan: Unknown
- Airport: Casablanca

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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