# NTSB DCA23WA205: Boeing 737, East Midlands, United Kingdom, March 6, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: March 6, 2023, 22:36 local (22:36 UTC)
- Place: East Midlands, United Kingdom · departure airport
- Coordinates: 52.833333, -1.333333 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=52.8333&lon=-1.3333&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Takeoff](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/300) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Takeoff: Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 2 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): 106868
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA205
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106868/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA205

## Sequence of events

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

- [Takeoff: Miscellaneous/other](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,556 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/900/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: G-JMCU (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (301)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: West Atlantic
- Registered owner: West Atlantic
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Destination: EGPD, Aberdeen, OF
- Airport: EGNX, East Midlands Airport, runway unk, unknown
- Equipment: Unknown

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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