# NTSB DCA21WA004: Boeing 787-800, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 3, 2020

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 4 · Foreign
- Date: October 3, 2020, 06:30 local (06:30 UTC)
- Place: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Flight instrument malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/334)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 186 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Dutch Safety Board
- NTSB case key (mKey): 102118
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA21WA004
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/102118/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA21WA004

## Sequence of events

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

- [Initial climb: Flight instrument malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/334) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 56 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/334/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: OO-JAV (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 787-800 (40943)
- Category: Airplane
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: TUI Airlines Netherlands
- Registered owner: TUI Airlines Belgium
- Airport: EHAM, Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport

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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