- Date
- August 2, 2016, 15:37 local (15:37 UTC)
- Place
- Mbuji Mayi, Congo - Kinshasa
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- 9Q-DBJBoeing 737
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 93900
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.
Hard landingAll aircraft: 2,102 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 737 airplane that occurred on August 02, 2016. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to DRC under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacturer and Design of the airplane/engine.All investigative information will be released by the government of Congo.
Aircraft
- Registration
- 9Q-DBJ
- Reported as
- Boeing 737 (200)
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial