- Date
- October 22, 2013, 10:05 local (14:05 UTC)
- Place
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands
- Injuries
- 176 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N605AABoeing 757 223
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 88322
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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 Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) of the United Kingdom has notified the NTSB of an incident involving a Boeing 757, which occurred on October 22, 2013. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the AAIB investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of the Operator, and State of Manufacture and Design of the airplane. All investigative information will be released by the AAIB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N605AA
- Reported as
- Boeing 757 223 (223)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27056
- Built
- 1995
- Engines
- Rolls-Royc RB.211 SERIES, turbo fanRolls-Royc RB.211 SERIES, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- American Airlines Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
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.