# NTSB DCA23WA138: Boeing 737, Merauke-Papua Island, Indonesia, January 26, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: January 26, 2023, 09:05 local (09:05 UTC)
- Place: Merauke-Papua Island, Indonesia
- Coordinates: -2.57695, 140.516007
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-2.5770&lon=140.5160&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Taxi-to runway: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 129 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): 106638
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA138
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106638/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA138

## Sequence of events

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

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

## Aircraft

- Registration: PK-LFO (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (900)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: PT. Lion Mentari Airlines
- Registered owner: PT. Lion Mentari Airlines
- Departed: WAKK, Merauke-Papua Island
- Destination: WAJJ, Jayapura-Papua Island
- Airport: WAJJ, Sentani 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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