# NTSB DCA21WA225: Boeing 787, Istanbul, Türkiye, August 9, 2018

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: August 9, 2018, 14:42 local (14:42 UTC)
- Place: Istanbul, Türkiye
- Location: 40.9719° N, 28.8237° E: Placed by OpenAirDocs at İstanbul Atatürk Airport (LTBA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.9719&lon=28.8237&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200)
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 103921
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA21WA225
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/103921/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA21WA225

## Sequence of events

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

- [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200) (defining event), aircraft 1; cases with it: [All aircraft, 618 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md)

## Aircraft 1

- Registration: CN-RGT (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 787
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Part 129
- Operator: Royal  Air  Maroc
- Registered owner: Royal  Air  Maroc
- Airport: LTBA, Atatürk International Airport

## Aircraft 2

- Registration: TC-TJJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 777
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Part 129
- Operator: Turkish Airlines
- Registered owner: Turkish Airlines

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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