# NTSB DCA23WA045: Boeing 737, Cairns, Australia, October 25, 2022

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: October 25, 2022, 22:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place: Cairns, Australia
- Coordinates: -16.873464, 145.749406
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-16.8735&lon=145.7494&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Altitude deviation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/282)
- 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): 106260
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA045
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106260/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA045

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: Altitude deviation](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/282) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 104 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/282/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: VH-VZA (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (838)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Departed: Brisbane
- Destination: Same as departure

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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