DCA18WA222

NTSB accident investigation · Boeing 737 800 · Crete, Greece · June 10, 2018

Accident · No injuriesForeign investigation
Date
June 10, 2018, 14:53 local (14:53 UTC)
Place
Crete, Greece
Injuries
173 uninjured
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
N276EABoeing 737 800
Defining event
Landing-flare/touchdown: Tailstrike
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
97513

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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.

TailstrikeLanding-flare/touchdownBoeing 737-800: 1 caseAll aircraft: 124 casesDefining event

Aircraft

Registration
N276EA
Reported as
Boeing 737 800 (8AL)
Category
Airplane
Serial number
35070
Built
2006
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Part 121
Operator
Swiftair
Registered owner
Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee
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.