# NTSB DCA23WA216: Douglas DC8, Maiquetía, Venezuela, March 21, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: March 21, 2023, 19:27 local (23:27 UTC)
- Place: Maiquetía, Venezuela
- Coordinates: 10.600624, -66.99928
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=10.6006&lon=-66.9993&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Initial climb](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/350) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Initial climb: Electrical system malf/failure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/332)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 5 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): 106937
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA216
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/106937/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA216

## Sequence of events

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

- [Initial climb: Electrical system malf/failure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/332) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 182 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/332/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: OB-2231-P (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: DOUGLAS DC8 (73F)
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Sky Bus Air Cargo Inc

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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