DCA22WA114

NTSB incident investigation · Boeing 777-223 · Barcelona, Spain · March 20, 2022

IncidentClass 5 · Foreign
Date
March 20, 2022, 09:15 local (09:15 UTC)
Place
Barcelona, Spain
Damage
Minor damage
Phase of flight
Initial climb
Aircraft
N777ANBoeing 777-223
Defining event
Initial climb: Part(s) separation from AC
Investigation class
Class 5 - No publish
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
104944

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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
N777AN
Reported as
Boeing 777-223
Category
Airplane
Serial number
29585
Built
1999
Damage
Minor damage
Flight
Part 121
Operator
American Airlines Inc
Registered owner
American Airlines Inc
Airport
BCN · Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport

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.