# NTSB DCA23WA002: Boeing 777, Manila, Philippines, October 1, 2022

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 1, 2022, 16:08 local (16:08 UTC)
- Place: Manila, Philippines
- Coordinates: 14.597984, 120.983657
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=14.5980&lon=120.9837&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Tailstrike](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 368 uninjured
- 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): 106034
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA002
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106034/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA002

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Tailstrike](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 124 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: HZ-AK28 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 777
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Saudi Airlines
- Destination: Jeddah
- Airport: RPLL, Ninoy Aquino 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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