DCA21WA202

NTSB incident investigation · Boeing 737-824 · Mexico City, Mexico · July 29, 2021

IncidentClass 5 · Foreign
Date
July 29, 2021, 05:00 local (05:00 UTC)
Place
Mexico City, Mexico
Damage
No damage
Phase of flight
Approach
Aircraft
N36272Boeing 737-824
Investigation class
Class 5 - No publish
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
103656

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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.

Aircraft

Registration
N36272
Reported as
Boeing 737-824
Category
Airplane
Serial number
31590
Built
2001
Damage
No damage
Flight
Part 121
Operator
United Airlines

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.