# NTSB DCA23WA264: Airbus A321, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 29, 2023

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: April 29, 2023, 08:45 local (08:45 UTC)
- Place: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · destination airport
- Coordinates: 24.433056, 54.651111 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=24.4331&lon=54.6511&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-flare/touchdown: Tailstrike](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 212 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): 107199
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA23WA264
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/107199/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA23WA264

## Sequence of events

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

- [Landing-flare/touchdown: Tailstrike](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 124 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/091/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: A6-WZG (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: 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

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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