- Date
- November 19, 2017, 01:45 local (01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Injuries
- 86 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- YV2937Boeing 737
- Defining event
- Enroute: Uncontained engine failure
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 96376
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.
Uncontained engine failureAll aircraft: 47 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The government of Ecuador has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 737 airplane that occurred on November 19, 2017. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Ecuador's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Ecuador.
Aircraft
- Registration
- YV2937
- Reported as
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- AVIOR Airlines
- Registered owner
- Avior
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport