- Date
- April 29, 2023, 08:45 local (08:45 UTC)
- Place
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · destination airport
- Injuries
- 212 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- A6-WZGAirbus A321
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Tailstrike
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 107199
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
TailstrikeAll aircraft: 124 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- A6-WZG
- Reported as
- Airbus A321 (271NX)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11030
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Whizz Air
- Registered owner
- Whizz Air
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- UBBB · Baku, OF
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- OMAA · Abu Dhabi International Airport, runway 31L, 13,451 × ft, asphalt